Table Of Content“RamadlanaAsanda: Kanak
ARANYA KANDAM.
SECTION 1.
“Finrunine the extensive forest of Dandaka, the irrepressi-
ble and self-composed Rima saw the collection of asylums
with Ruga and bark,
and covironed by spiritual energy; incapable of being bebeld;
like the solar dise in the heavens,~-the refuge of all crea-
tures—with their ornamented yarls; filled with a, great
many deer, and abounding in multitudes of birds ; in which
‘Apsaris ways danced and which they held in respect 5
(asylums) beauteous with spacious rooms for fire-sacrificc,
with sacrificial necessaries, deér-skins, Kuga, faggots, water-
pitchers, (ruits and roots ; surrounded hy mighty and sacred
forest-trees; crowned with lucious fruits ; honored with Vaii*
and Homat; holy; resounding with the sounds of Vedi
recitations ; scattered with divers blossoms; and contai
ing tanks filled with lotuses; with ancient ascetics liv-
ing on (ruils and roots, having their seises under control,
wearing bark and black deer-skins, and” possessing the
splendour of the sun or fire; and adorned by great’ and
holy sages living upon’ regulated fare, Beholding that
belonging unté’ the ascetics, stres
Otorings to the apirits ain.
+ Barat atferinge, or oblations of clarified butter ita the sazred Bry, 32 a0
‘offering te the gous, accompanied with, prayers ox iteaeationt.e=T.
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collection of asylums belongitfg unto the ascetics, resembling
the regions of Brahms, resonant with the voices of Vedic
recitations; and grateipl; With highly pious Brihmanas
versed in the Vedles,—the exceedingly energetic and graceful
Ragbava entered tha sae, having first unstrung his
mighty bow. Thereupbn, seeing the righteous Rama tesembl-
ing the moon rison, 23 well as Lakshmana and the
listrious
Vaidehi, these Maharsbis endeued with spiritual intoi-
tion, came forward (to mect the incomers); and, having
uttered bencdictions, those persons of rigid vows, received
them. And those dwellers of the wood, struck with wonder,
Daheld Rima’s tender grace and lovliness and elegance
of dress. And struck with astonishment, those inbabitants
Df the woods of pre-eminent piety saw Vaidebi, Laksh-
mana and Rima, with winkless eyes. And those persons
of exalted virtue, engaged in the welfare of afl ereatures,
made Raghava, their guest, sit down in their thatched cottage.
Then, having received Rama respectiully according to seri
tural prescription, those virtuous ones of eminent piety, res-
embling fire, procured water (far Rima). And, experiencing
great delight, those high-souled ones, uttering benedictions,
procured wild fruits, flowers and roots ; and, having assigned
an asylum (unto Rama), those persons cognizant of righteous-
ness, sald with joined hands, “Possessed of high fame, thou,
the protector of righteousness, art the refuge of these
people. ‘Thou shoudst be honored and worshipped, being
their king, holding the rod, and their superior. O Raghava, it
je because hethat governs his subjects, is a fourth part of Indra
himself, that the king, being bowed down unto by all,
enjoys the choicést things, And we, being in thy domiaions,
oughbto be protected by thee. Whether living ja the city
or in the woods, thou, lord of men, art our soversign. We
have renounced chastising others; and, O monarch, we have
conyuered our anger, and subdued’ our passions, Therefore,
even asa child in its mother’savomb (chould be protected
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by her), should we be protected by thee.” Having said this,
they entertained Raghava, along with Lakshmana, with
fruits and roots and flowers and diverse other edibles pro-
curable in the woods. In the same way, ether ascetics of
accomplished purposes, living livés oPintegrity, duly pleased
that lord, Rama, resembling Vaigyinara.’
SECTION I
Havin received the bomage of the ascolies, Rama
about sun-rise, having greeted them all, entered into the
forest. And Réma, followed by Lakshmana, saw the heart
of the forest abounding in various kinds of beasts,—ranged by
bears and Ligers, with its trees and shrubs tom and trampled,
its pools turbid, and its birds crying, And, having in company
with Sita arrived at that forest abounding in terrible beasts,
Kakutstha saw a man-eater, resembling a moustain-summit,
emitting tremendous roars, with hollow eyes, a hug’ face,
frightful, having a deformed belly, disgusting, dreadfal,
Cyclopean, mis-shapen, of a horrible sight, clad in a tiger-skin,
besmeared with fat, covercd with blood, capable of irighten-
ing all creatures, with his mouth widely extended, like unto
the Destroyer himself, and uttering loud shouts,~-who stood
piercing with his iron dart theee lions, four gers, (wo Iea-
pards, four Prishatas, and the huge tusked head of ae elephant
dripping fat. Having seen Rama and Lakshmana, as well as
Sita the daughter of Mithila, he growing angry, cusbed
(against them), like the Destroyer himself tushing against
creatures af the universal dissolution. Uttering a dreatifut
yell, and, as if making the earth tremble, he took Vuidehi
‘on his waist, and, going a litile distance, said, "O ye wearing
bark and matted Jocks, O ye of feeble strength, that accom-
panied by your fcommon) wife. have entered the forest of
