महावीरचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - वीररस-प्रधान रामकथा नाटक सम्पूर्ण ७ अङ्क सटीक)

ii. 19²—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [38 young trees thickly planted and yielding an ample and bluish shade—with the numerous herds of deer fearlessly [roaming about] : let the noble one [now] look at these, these serene and awe-inspiring central forests : Here, as the [youth-]intoxicated birds invade the vānīra creepers, the flowers [dropping down into the rillets] suffuse with fragrance their cool and limpid waters;—as the jambū clusters, darkling with the load of ripening fruit, impede [the rillets in] their path, their [broken] currents incessantly murmur : thus do these [mountain-]rillets glide along. 20 Furthermore— Here, of the young bears that have their lairs in [these] caverns, the spluttered growls (ambūkṛita) become augmented by the echoes that they send forth; [and] cool and bitter and pungent as it is, the exuding fragrance of the śallakī¹ branches, torn from their joints and scattered about by [rutting] elephants, is [also] augmented. 21 Rāma, stemming [the flow] of his tears—Friend, happy be your path! May you attain the Course celestial,² leading you on to the Realms of the holy! Śambūka—Meantime I shall do my homage to the ancient Brahman sage, [the venerable] Agastya, before I enter the Abode eternal. Goes out. Rāma—This, once more, is that same, same forest that to-day I behold, [the forest] wherein formerly for many many days we lived [together], as foresters and as householders, duly discharged our [several] duties, [and] knew the taste of [all] the charms of life. 22 Here are those selfsame mountains alive with the cries of peacocks—these the same wooded ridges full of the lustily sportive deer. Here again, vocal with [the rustlings of] the lovely vañjula creepers, are those same river-banks densely fringed with the sable nichula [trees]. 23 And this here that, like a range of clouds, one can well make out even from a distance—this is the mountain Prasravaṇa, where is the river Godāvarī. 24 It was on the mighty crest of this very [mountain] that the king of vultures [Jaṭāyus] had his abode; and at its foot we likewise found our comfort in those leafy cottages. The waters of the ¹ A tree the twigs of which form the favourite so the exudations of śallakī intensify the food of wild elephants. The idea is, as pungent smell of the elephants' rut. the caverns deepen the growls of bears, ² See Note to the passage.