उत्तररामचरितम् (महाकवि भवभूति - संस्कृत मूल एवं हिन्दी व्याख्या)

—VI. 27 ] UTTARARÂMACHARITA. 255 and majesty. And the fact that the missiles disclosed them- selves to them of their own accord makes me thus reflect. Can it be my permission to the missiles at the time of look- ing at the pictures that has taken effect? For we have heard that the missiles did not pass without traditional instruction even among men of old time, and moreover this exceeding joy of my heart gives assurance to my soul that is floating (on doubts). That they are twins also greatly agrees with my own experience. For I had often marked that the queen in her pregnancy was blessed with twins. (weeping) (Verse 28) For when the love, that had already taken root, had grown with our familiarity, it was I who first perceived with the gentle touch of my palm the two-fold nature of the foetus in her womb as we were alone, she with her eyes closed from a sense of natural coyness though feeling per- fectly at ease, and it was after some days that she came to know herself. (Having wept) What then shall I ask the e boys on some pretext? Lava —Father, what means this? (Verse 29) A flood of tears has given to thy face, which gives prosperity to the worlds, the beauty of a dew besprinkled lotus. Kusa —Oh my dear brother! (Verse 30) Of course without the queen Sîtâ what must not be a source of grief to the lord of Raghus? For, truly the whole world becomes a wilderness on the loss of the beloved, and that love he felt was so great, and that separation also is endless, why dost thou ask such a question as if thou hadst not studied the Râmâyaṇa? Rama—(To himself) Oh, they talk with indifference. Enough of questions. Foolish heart, what means this sudden unsteadving emotion of thine? Having thus revealed the agitation of my heart, I have become an object of pity even to the boys. Well, I shall change the topic. (Aloud) My children, there is a poem called Râmâyaṇa, the outpouring of the learning of the revered Vâlmîki, the panegyric of the race of the sun, I wish out of curiosity to hear a little from it. Kusa —The whole of that composition has been studied by us. Now there recur to my memory these two verses in the last canto of the part that describes Râma's boyhood. Rama —My darlings, repeat them.