हंससंदेशः /203

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21.
 
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ON
 

HAMSA SANDESA
 
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<heading lang="sa">ĀSVĀSA I.
 
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<p lang="sa">1. Born of the sinless Solar Race, (yet) honouring

his human state, the Lord, vigilantly wakeful in searching

for the (lost) daughter of Janaka, he, the fond lover,

having resolved upon a plan of action after the return of

(Hanuman) the son of Vayu, somehow endured, until the

dawn, the (agony of the) night, in form as (terrible as)

the period of universal destruction, [or] (which to him

was) as long as a Kalpa (of a thousand Chaturyugas.)
 
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<p lang="sa">2. Early at dawn, hurriedly making the army of the

King of the Vanara race exert it diligently (for the march),

and with his inmost heart distressed on account of the

daughter of Janaka being very far away, he caught sight

of a royal-swan, pleasant to the sight in its sportive mood

in the lotus-tank and (with its hue) in harmony with the
lustre of the full mon
lustre of the full <error>mon</error><fix>moon</fix>, (a swan) that had come towards

that place at the time from somewhere.
 
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<p lang="sa" merge-next="true">3. (He) the hero, having fixed his eyes unwaveringly

on him (the swan) whose gait copied the gait of Sita,

whose form was that of the figure (woven) in the skirt

of her silken garment, and whose voice was like the

sound of her anklet, and being filled to the inmost.
 
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