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showered on both flowers. A club of Kutasalmal furnished with iron 

 nails was hurled at Rama, but with semi-lunar arrows he cut off this club 

 as quickly as a plantain bud. And at the same time the hope of the 

 Rakhasas, the hundred heads of Ravana were cut off at one blow, pre- 

 senting the appearance of the sun's image reflected one hundred ways 

 by the flickering waves, a shower of flowers followed by a swarm of bees 

 was poured on the head of Rama by the gods. Rama returned to his 

 city. 



Vishnu taking the name of Rama passed through his region (the air) 

 the quality of which is sound, and thus addressed his wife : — " Behold 

 the foaming waters divided by my bridge as the aether (the road of 

 light) in autumn time exhibits the brilliant stars, — ocean is the parent 

 of the solar rays the ministers of fire : like Vishnu its form can be 

 limited neither by number or quantity- — in the ocean, are animals which 

 spout torrents of water on high, snakes which rise to inhale the air 

 blowing from the shore and shine with their diamonds reflecting the solar 

 rays — as a brazen line on a chariot wheel, so appears dark with Tamdla 

 trees the narrow shore of the briny ocean black with ranges of Tamala 

 and palm trees. The wind from the shore wafts the fragrance of the 

 Ketaka. In our celestial car wafted we arrived at the ocean's shore 

 planted with betelnuts bending under their load of fruit. Oh, thou 

 stag-eyed, the cloud having the lightning as its bracelet becomes your 

 ornament — the bark-clad hermits dwell in the Dandaka forest where 

 the creeping plants by their shoots indicated your abduction, — there 

 is the heaven- touching summit of the Malayan mountain where in 

 your absence I could not endure the scent of the Kadamba flowers 

 with half-opened leaves, nor the pleasing screams of the peacocks or 

 the noise of the clouds reaching from their caves, then was I vexed 

 by the beauty of your eyes dark with the smoke of matrimonial 

 flames, then I beheld the ruddy geese inseparable in affection giving 

 to each other the lotus leaves, the tender plants of Asoka with flowers 

 pendant as breasts were embraced by me in your absence. Then near 

 the banks of the Godavari I returned tired from hunting, refreshed by 

 the wind blowing from the waters, reclining my head on thy bosom I 

 slept in the reedy forests ; there is the river Mandakina, with crystal 

 streams which seen at a great distance seems at the foot of the moun- 

 tain like a string of pearls on the neck of the earth — in this forest are 

 trees which produce fruit without the previous mark of flowers." 



