उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

—II. 21] UTTARARÂMACHARITA 209 the echo, swell and the perfume, cool pungent and fragrant, issuing from the joints of the Sâllaki trees split and scattered about by the elephants, is spread abroad. Râma —(Restraining his tears) Friend, may the path called Devayâna be prosperous (safe) to you. Mayest thou vanish towards the holy worlds ! Sambuka —Having first saluted the sage Agastya, that old expounder of the knowledge of Brahma, I will enter the everlasting abode. (so exit) Râma —(Verse 22) How it is that I behold the same wood once more to-day wherein we formerly lived for a long time, both as hermits and house-holders, devoted to our proper duties, and also tasting the flavour of worldly pleasures! (Verse 23) These are those very mountains, with peacocks uttering their notes on them, these are these very forest lawns with intoxicated deer, these are those same river banks, covered with beautiful Vanjula creepers, and having Nichula trees that are deeply merged in water. (Verse 24) This is the mountain Prasravana where the river Godâvarî flows by, and which appears as if it were near and is like a garland of clouds. (Verse 25) On the great summit of this very mountain was the home of the vulture king beneath it we found pleasure in those leafy huts, where is the delightful border of the wood in which coo the noisy birds and the dark beauty of the trees in which is reflected in the water of the Godâvarî. Here therefore must be that Panchavatî where there are spots which on account of our long sojourn there witnessed an excess of all kinds of confidential intercourse, and where a dear friend of my beloved, a sylvan deity Vâsantî by name (dwelt). What is this that has to-day befallen Râma ? For now, (Verse 26) My grief, having be- come intense distracts me as if it were fresh, like fierce poison juice after a long time violently bursting forth and circulating, like a splinter of an arrow shaken with force from some cause or other; like an ulcer, the mouth of which had been closed up, re-opened in the centre of my heart. Nevertheless I shall see those localities which were my former friends. (Observing) Oh, the configuration of the objects is altered. For instance, (Verse 27) where formerly there was the current of a river, there now is the sand of the rivers, the density and thinness