{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/rama/ry446.htm","path":"hin/rama/ry446.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/rama/ry446.htm","text":"Still on the ground where R\u00e1ma slept\n Their faithful watch the V\u00e1nars kept.\n There Angad stood o'erwhelmed with grief\n And many a lord and warrior chief;\n And, ranged in densest mass around,\n Their tree-armed legions held the ground.\n Far ranged each V\u00e1nar's eager eye,\n Now swept the land, now sought the sky,\n All fearing, if a leaf was stirred,\n A R\u00e1kshas in the sound they heard.\n The lord of Lank\u00e1 in his hall,\n Rejoicing at his foeman's fall,\n Commanded and the warders came\n Who ever watched the Maithil dame.\n 'Go,' cried the R\u00e1kshas king, 'relate\n To Janak's child her husband's fate.\n Low on the earth her R\u00e1ma lies,\n And dark in death are Lakshman's eyes.\n Bring forth my car and let her ride\n To view the chieftains side by side.\n The lord to whom her fancy turned\n For whose dear sake my love she spurned,\n Lies smitten, as he fiercely led\n The battle, with his brother dead.\n Lead forth the royal lady: go\n Her husband's lifeless body show.\n Then from all doubt and terror free\n Her softening heart will turn to me.'\n They heard his speech: the car was brought;\n \n \n That shady grove the warders sought\n Where, mourning R\u00e1ma night and day,\n The melancholy lady lay.\n They placed her in the car and through\n The yielding air they swiftly flew.\n The lady looked upon the plain,\n Looked on the heaps of V\u00e1nar slain,\n Saw where, triumphant in the fight,\n Thronged the fierce rovers of the night,\n And V\u00e1nar chieftains, mournful-eyed,\n Watched by the fallen brothers' side.\n There stretched upon his gory bed\n Each brother lay as lie the dead,\n With shattered mail and splintered bow\n Pierced by the arrows of the foe.\n When on the pair her eyes she bent,\n Burst from her lips a wild lament\n Her eyes o'erflowed, she groaned and sighed\n And thus in trembling accents cried:","title":"BOOK VI: Canto XLVII.: Sit\u00e1.","type":"page"}