Ramayana Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /175

AYODHYAKANDA
 
grass, Rama, highly
distressed
lamenting, uttered these words :
 
distressed
 

 
इदं भुङ्क्ष्व महाराज प्रीतो यदशना वयम् ।

यदन्नः पुरुषो भवति तदन्नास्तस्य देवताः ॥
 
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"O mighty monarch, feed on
 
this
 
this
which we feed on, and be satisfied. That
 

which we feed on, and be satisfied.
which is the food of a person is the food

of his gods."
 

 
ततः पर्णकुटीद्वारम् आसाद्य जगतीपतिः ।

परिजग्राह बाहुभ्याम् उभौ भरतलक्ष्मणौ ॥
 
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and
 

Then, reaching the threshold of the

hermitage, Rama, the lord of the world,

embraced with his arms both Bharata

and Lakshmana.
 

 
अचिरप्रोषितं रामं चिरविप्रोषितं यथा ।

द्रष्टुकामो जनस्सर्वो जगाम सहसाऽऽश्रमम् ॥
 

All the people then went to the hermit-

age with the desire of seeing Rama, who

had been away only for a short time, as

though he had been away for a long

time.
 

 
वसिष्ठः पुरतः कृत्वा दारान् दशरथस्य च ।

अभिचक्राम तं देशं रामदर्शनतर्षितः ॥