उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

—III. 1] UTTARARĀMACHARITA. 211
Act III.
(Then enter two Rivers).
One (River nymph) — Friend Muralā, why do you look to
be in haste?
Muralā — Friend Tamasā, I am sent by Lopāmudrā,
the wife of the sage Agastya, to the best of rivers, the
Godāvarī, to deliver this message — You know how since
the abandonment of his wife, (Verse 1) The grief of Rāma,
not manifest on account of his profundity but causing secret
and acute pain inside, is like a drug boiled in a closed pot.
And by that long continuance of sorrow produced by a calamity
happening to such a beloved person, which has now gone to
excess, good Rāma is now exceedingly wasted. On beholding
him my heart is as it were shaken to its very centre (stem or
root), moreover, now that good Rāma is returning, he must
certainly behold in the Panchavati wood those regions which
witnessed the affectionate confidences between him and his
wife, produced by dwelling together, and although good Rāma
is firm by nature, still owing to the violent agitation caused by
his excessive and overwhelming sorrow which must arise in
such circumstances, at every step serious occasions of mishaps
are to be apprehended for him in such places. Therefore
venerable Godāvarī, thou shouldst be on the watch: (Verse 2).
In every fit of distraction that comes upon good Rāma, refresh
his life with breezes from thy waves, sent up gently, cool with
particles of spray, carrying with them the scent of lotus
filaments.
Tamasā — This kindness is but fitting for affection that
Lopāmudrā has for Rāma, but a radical means of reviving
good Rāma is at hand to-day.
Muralā — How do you mean?
Tamasā — Listen. When long ago Lakshmaṇa had gone
after abandoning Sītā in the neighbourhood of Vālmīki's
penance-grove, the queen Sītā, when she found that the throes
of child-birth had come upon her, threw herself into the
stream of the Gangā on account of the extreme violence of
grief. And there at that very instant she gave birth to
two boys, and, being favoured by the venerable Earth and
Gangā, was taken to the nether world, and after they had
been weaned the goddess Gangā in person committed her two
boys to the care of the great sage Prāchetasa (Vālmīki).