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Hearing of the welfare of those two best
of men, the queenly Sita, thrilled all
SUNDARAKANDA
over with joy, spoke thus to Hanuman :
कल्याणी बत गाथेयं लौकिकी प्रतिभाति मे ।
एति जीवन्तमानन्दो नरं वर्षशतादपि ॥
"Verily, the auspicous saying of the people
appears to me to be true that, though after
a hundred years, joy comes
to a man if
he but lives.
क्व ते रामेण संसर्गः कथं जानासि लक्ष्मणम् ।
वानराणां नराणां च कथमासीत् समागमः ॥
Where did you meet Rama? How do
you know Lakshmana ?
How did monkeys
and men come together?
यानि लिङ्गानि रामस्य लक्ष्मणस्य च वानर ।
तानि भूयः समाचक्ष्व न मां शोकः समाविशेत् ॥
O monkey, narrate once again the
distinguishing marks of Rama and Lakshmana,
( so that ) sorrow may not possess me."
एवमुक्तस्तु वैदेह्या हनुमान् मारुतात्मजः ।
ततो रामं यथातत्त्वम् आख्यातुनुपचक्रमे ॥
Being thus told by Vaidehi, Hanuman,
the son of Vayu, began then to describe
Rama exactly :
Hearing of the welfare of those two best
of men, the queenly Sita, thrilled all
SUNDARAKANDA
over with joy, spoke thus to Hanuman :
कल्याणी बत गाथेयं लौकिकी प्रतिभाति मे ।
एति जीवन्तमानन्दो नरं वर्षशतादपि ॥
"Verily, the auspicous saying of the people
appears to me to be true that, though after
a hundred years, joy comes
to a man if
he but lives.
क्व ते रामेण संसर्गः कथं जानासि लक्ष्मणम् ।
वानराणां नराणां च कथमासीत् समागमः ॥
Where did you meet Rama? How do
you know Lakshmana ?
How did monkeys
and men come together?
यानि लिङ्गानि रामस्य लक्ष्मणस्य च वानर ।
तानि भूयः समाचक्ष्व न मां शोकः समाविशेत् ॥
O monkey, narrate once again the
distinguishing marks of Rama and Lakshmana,
( so that ) sorrow may not possess me."
एवमुक्तस्तु वैदेह्या हनुमान् मारुतात्मजः ।
ततो रामं यथातत्त्वम् आख्यातुनुपचक्रमे ॥
Being thus told by Vaidehi, Hanuman,
the son of Vayu, began then to describe
Rama exactly :