उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

234 TRANSLATION OF [ VI. 21— Rāma—Come, come, boy, long may you live! (Verse 21) Through affection I am eagerly longing to embrace your body, which is smooth and sleek like a cloud filled with water. (Having embraced him, to himself) Can this boy be my child? (Verse 22) For when I embrace him, he, as it were, bedews my body with a stream of nectareous fluid as if he were the essence of my body produced from my affection and flowing forth from every limb, as if he were all my life standing without me revealed in bodily form, as if he were created by the gushing of my heart agitated with deep joy. Lava—Father! The sun is shining right on the fore- head, therefore take a seat for a moment in the thick shade of this Sala tree. Rāma—As my child likes. (All walk about and sit down according to rank.) Rāma—(To himself) (Verse 23) Ha! though lined with modesty the ways of Kusa and Lava, their gait, their attitude, their manner of sitting, and so on, suggest (future) imperial rank. (Verse 24) And the charms of their beauty, which are natural and inseparable from their body, proclaim a grace attractive in every part, as those charming rays indicate the flawless moon or the drops of honey an expanded lotus. And I see in them abundantly manifested the beauty of the princes of the race of Raghu (Verse 25). Their body is dark blue like the neck of a full grown pigeon and has well turned shoulders that resemble the neck of a bull; their look is steady like that of a pleased lion, and their voice is deep like that of the drum of rejoicing. (Observing them carefully) Ha! not only does their form resemble mine, (Verse 26) but various resemblances to the daughter of Janaka are noticeable in this pair of boys, for him who has requisite skill to mark them. Surely that face of my darl- ing, beautiful like a young lotus, has, as it were, again been submitted to my eyes. (Verse 27) Here is the same stamp of the upper lip, beautiful with the gleam of teeth clean and white and the same fascinating ears, and although the eyes are red and blue, nevertheless there is in them the same wave of beauty. (Reflecting) This is that very forest, inhabited by Prāchetasa, where indeed the queen was abandoned, and this is their appearance and this their age.