Ramayana Condensed in the Poet's Own Words /340

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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 ॥
 

Ascending the sky and jumping
 
As
through, all the monkeys cending the sky
through, all the monkeys ame down to
the ground in the vicame down to
the ground in the inity of the king of
the monkeys and of Raghavicinity of the king of
the monkeys and of Raghava.