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अधिजलधि तमः क्षिपन् हिमांऽगुः परिददृशेऽथ दृशां कृतावकाशः । |
fixed on his beloved, the cloud-coloured darkness increased along with the rise of Cupid (love) in Rama.
67. Then the moon which provided (some) scope for the eyes, was seen dispersing the darkness upon the ocean (and), recreating, as it were, the world that had merged. For, all that is magnanimous exist just for the benefit of others
68. ‘(Is) this the thunderbolt ? Whence that, too, in a cloudless sky? A shower of sharp arrows ? That too (has to be) non-existent without a bow.” (Thinking) thus again and again. Rama who was under the sway of Cupid, could not conclude (that it was) the moon.
69. The moon who had scattered its rays on beds of night-lotuses and the faces of the ladies, viz., the quarters, where from darkness was annihilated, shone so gracefully in the sky, as none else than moon could shine.
70. Seated in the interstices between huge uneven boulders, the darkness whose colour was like that of a water-cloud and which had gone for shelter in the bowers where from the enemies in the form of the moonrays were driven out by the trees, hid itself like one frightened.
