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THE RAMAYANA
 
"Janaka's, blameless daughter has been
found,-kept in the middle of the Asoka
wood and being guarded by highly terri-
fic Rakshasa women.
 
सा प्रकृत्यैव तत्वङ्गी तद्वियोगाच्च कर्शिता ।
प्रतिपत्पाठशीलस्य विद्येव तनुतां गता ।
 
She, lean already by nature, is now
emaciated on account of exile like the
learning of one who is addicted to study
on pratipad (the first day of the lunar
fortnight)."
 
प्रीतिमन्तस्ततः सर्वे वायुपुत्रपुरस्सराः ।
महेन्द्राद्रिं परित्यज्य पुप्लुवुः प्लवगर्षभाः ॥
 
Then all the mighty monkeys with the
son of Vayu at their head, being highly
pleased, leapt over the sky, leaving the
Mahendra mountain behind.
 
प्लवमानाः स्वमुत्पत्य ततस्ते काननौकसः ।
निपेतुर्हरिराजस्य समीपे राघवस्य च ॥
 
and jumping
 
Ascending the sky
through, all the monkeys came down to
the ground in the vicinity of the king of
the monkeys and of Raghava.