Rasarnavasudhakara 2.352.p2

2.352.p2

And he commented: "The intellect of Rāma, who is noble by nature, adheres by its very disposition to truth and does not turn toward any other object; nor, once set in motion, does it cease. Directed thus in the form of 'This Sītā is worthy of my acceptance,' stimulated by Rāvaṇa's suit and Lakṣmaṇa's encouragement, and united with emerging [states] such as anxious reflection, deliberative doubt, bashfulness, dissimulation, and recollection, and with discrimination, dexterity, courage, magnanimity, and the like inferred from timely replies, it matures in the form of the exalted aesthetic sentiment."