5 verses · 232 of 361
Sita looks about, anxious, wondering where the princes have gone; wherever her fawn-like eyes fall, a row of white lotuses seems to rain. Then her friends point through the creepers, and she sees the two youths. Her eyes grow glad, as if she had recognised her own treasure. Gazing at Shri Rama, her lids forget to blink and her body is lost to itself, like a chakori before the autumn moon. Wisely she brings him into her heart through the path of the eyes and shuts the lids like doors. Her friends, seeing her lost in love, say nothing. Just then the brothers step out of the bower like two clear moons from a cloud.
चितवहि चकित चहूँ दिसि सीता । कहँ गये नृप-किसोर मन चिन्ता ॥
जहँ बिलोक मृग-सावक-नैनी । जनु तहँ बरिस कमल-सित-स्रेनी ॥
citavahi cakita cahūm̐ disi sītā | kaham̐ gaye nṛpa-kisora mana cintā ||
jaham̐ biloka mṛga-sāvaka-nainī | janu taham̐ barisa kamala-sita-srenī ||
लता ओट तब सखिन्ह लखाये । स्यामल गौर किसोर सुहाये ॥
देखि रूप लोचन ललचाने । हरषे जनु निज निधि पहिचाने ॥
latā oṭa taba sakhinha lakhāye | syāmala gaura kisora suhāye ||
dekhi rūpa locana lalacāne | haraṣe janu nija nidhi pahicāne ||
थके नयन रघुपति छबि देखें । पलकन्हिहूँ परिहरीं निमेखे ॥
अधिक सनेहँ देह भइ भोरी । सरद-ससिहि जनु चितव चकोरी ॥
thake nayana raghupati chabi dekheṃ | palakanhihūm̐ pariharīṃ nimekhe ||
adhika saneham̐ deha bhai bhorī | sarada-sasihi janu citava cakorī ||
लोचन मग रामहिँ उर आनी । दीन्हे पलक कपाट सयानी ॥
जब सिय सखिन्ह प्रेम-बस जानी । कहि न सकहिँ कछु मन सकुचानी ॥
locana maga rāmahim̐ ura ānī | dīnhe palaka kapāṭa sayānī ||
jaba siya sakhinha prema-basa jānī | kahi na sakahim̐ kachu mana sakucānī ||
लता-भवन से प्रगट भे, तेहि अवसर दोउ भाइ ।
निकसे जनु जुग बिमल बिधु, जलद-पटल बिलगाइ ॥
latā-bhavana se pragaṭa bhe, tehi avasara dou bhāi |
nikase janu juga bimala bidhu, jalada-paṭala bilagāi ||
Text source: Wikisource · Public domain (Tulsidas, 16th c.; 1925 edition, Wikisource PD-1996 tag); transcription CC BY-SA 4.0
