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AYODHYAKANDA
 
153
 
जटिलं चीरवसनं प्राञ्जलिं पतितं भुवि ।
कथञ्चिदभिविज्ञाय विवर्णवदनं कृशम् ।
भ्रातरं भरतं रामः परिजग्राह बाहुना ॥
 
Recognising with difficulty his emaciated
brother Bharata who had fallen
 
on the ground with folded hands and was
wearing matted hair and bark garments
and whose face had lost all colour, Rama
raised him up with his hand.
 
आघ्राय रामस्वं मूर्ध्नि परिष्वज्य च राघवः ।
अङ्के भरतमारोप्य पर्यपृच्छत् समाहितः ॥
 
Smelling him on his crown and
embracing him and seating him on his lap,
Raghava, with a
calın mind, asked
 
Bharata :
 
कच्चिन्नु धरते तात राजा यत्त्वमिहागतः ।
कचिन्न दीनः सहसा राजा लोकान्तरं गतः ॥
 
Our father the king is still alive, is he
not?—that you have come here; and the
poor king has not, I hope, gone suddenly
to the other world.
 
रामस्य वचनं श्रुत्वा भरतः प्रत्युवाच ह ॥