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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 terrific
Rakshasa women.
 
सा प्रकृत्यैव तन्वङ्गो तद्वियोगाच्च कर्शिता ।
प्रतिपत्पाठशीलस्य विद्येव तनुतां गता ॥
 
She, lean already by nature, is now
emaciated on account of exile like the
learning of one who ia addicted to study
on pratipad (the first day of the lunar
fortnight. )
 
प्रीतिमन्तस्ततः सर्वे वायुपुत्रपुरस्सराः ।
महेन्द्राद्रि परित्यज्य पुलुवुः प्लवगर्पभाः ॥
 
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 खमुत्पत्य ततस्ते काननौकसः ।
निपेतुर्हरिराजस्य समीपे राघवस्य च ॥
 
Ascending the sky and jumping through,
all the monkeys came
down to the
ground in the vicinity of the king of the
 
monkeys and of Raghava.