{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry357.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry357.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry357.htm","text":"Fair as Kail\u00e1sa white with snow\n He saw a palace flash and glow,\n A crystal pavement gem-inlaid,\n And coral steps and colonnade,\n And glittering towers that kissed the skies,\n Whose dazzling splendour charmed his eyes.\n There pallid, with neglected dress,\n Watched close by fiend and giantess,\n Her sweet face thin with constant flow\n Of tears, with fasting and with woe;\n Pale as the young moon's crescent when\n The first faint light returns to men:\n \n \n Dim as the flame when clouds of smoke\n The latent glory hide and choke;\n Like Rohin\u00ed the queen of stars\n Oppressed by the red planet Mars;\n From her dear friends and husband torn,\n Amid the cruel fiends, forlorn,\n Who fierce-eyed watch around her kept,\n A tender woman sat and wept,\n Her sobs, her sighs, her mournful mien,\n Her glorious eyes, proclaimed the queen.\n 'This, this is she,' the V\u00e1nar cried,\n 'Fair as the moon and lotus-eyed,\n I saw the giant R\u00e1van bear\n A captive through the fields of air.\n Such was the beauty of the dame;\n Her form, her lips, her eyes the same.\n This peerless queen whom I behold\n Is R\u00e1ma's wife with limbs of gold.\n Best of the sons of men is he,\n And worthy of her lord is she.'\n \n \n \n \n404:1 The poet forgets that Hanum\u00e1n has reduced himself to the size of a cat.","title":"BOOK V: Canto XV.: S\u00edt\u00e1.","type":"page"}