Lanka Kaanda
189 - Dialogue between Sita and Trijata
Chaupais
Description
With many such words did Trijata comfort Sita and then returned to her residence. As She recalled Sri Rama's kind disposition Videha's Daughter was overwhelmed with the anguish of separation from Him. She reproached the night and the moon in many ways. "The night has already assumed the length of an age and does not end" She added. Disconsolate at Her separation from Sri Rama, Janaka's Daughter grievously lamented within Herself. When Her agony of separation grew acute, Her left eye and arm throbbed. Considering it to be a good omen, She took heart and said to Herself, "The gracious Hero of Raghu's line will surely meet me." In his palace Ravana recovered from his swoon at midnight and cut up rough with his charioteer, "Fool, to have severed me from the battlefield; shame, shame on you, O vile dullard!" The charioteer clasped his feet and deprecated his anger in many ways. As soon as it was dawn Ravana mounted his car and sallied forth again. There was a great stir in the monkey host at the news of Ravana's return. Tearing up mountains and trees from wherever they could, mighty warriors rushed forward gnashing their teeth.