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

vi. 37ᵃ—] Bhavabhūti — Uttara-Rāma-Charita [92 [Thy face] bedewed with the cooling drops of sweat and radiant with thy moonlike forehead upon which thronged thy tresses as they blew to the breezes wafted gently from over the Mandākinī [river]—with thy cheeks glistening and [thy forehead] no longer marked with the [wonted] kuṅkuma-spot¹—thy face gentle with the mild curve of thy unadorned ears: it is as if I were seeing it now vividly (utprekshyate) before me! 37 Remains stock-still [in meditation], with pathos. Alas, alas indeed! After a long, long meditation, when one creates [in fancy] and puts before him the image of his love, it is by no means the case that such [an image], although [the actual object be] far off, does not fill one with reassurance; but with the dissolution of that [product of] imagination, the whole world becomes [once more] a void wilderness, and thereafter, as if upon a heap of blazing husks, the heart seems to be broiling! 38 [Voice,] behind the curtain— Alarmed at the report of the boys' affray, Vasiṣṭha and Vālmīki and the [widowed] Queens of Daśaratha, Janaka along with Arundhatī: from the far distant hermitage they are in sooth all coming hither, very slowly—their frames tottering with age, and themselves slow with fatigue, but hurrying with their mind. 39 Rāma—How, the exalted Arundhatī and Vasiṣṭha and the Queen-mothers and Janaka—are they all even here? Alas! How indeed can I meet them [now]? Observing, and with pathos. Ha! That father[-in-law] Janaka also should have come right hither—this is like the blow of a thunderbolt to me, ill-starred that I am! After having seen that union of father [Daśaratha] with [my] father[-in-law Janaka] on that festive occasion of the marriage of their children—[a marriage] approved by Vasiṣṭha and others, all overjoyed at the desirableness of the connexion—after that, why am I not torn to a thousand shreds as I, following upon such a terrible disaster [to my wife], behold, in this his present plight, Janaka, this friend of my father? 40 [Voice,] behind the curtain—Woe and alas!— Upon seeing suddenly, in his present plight, the Lord of the Raghus [Rāma], shorn of all his glory save his innate-majesty, these sorrow-stricken Queen-mothers—after reviving Janaka who ¹ Saffron (kuṅkuma) forms the indispensable Respecting the incident as given in the adornment of every married woman. In Rāmāyaṇa, see the Notes. this case it was temporarily rubbed off.