[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [The Great Story and its derivatives](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha) › [Kathasaritsagara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara) › 12.4.192 # Kathasaritsagara 12.4.192 Kathāsaritsāgara 12.4.192 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [12.4.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara.12.4.192) taddarśanasamudbhūtakṛpāveśavaśādiva / mumoca dyauravaśyāsyabāṣpavārikaṇotkaram // > And after she had gone a long distance, and was weary, and her steps began to falter, the night disappeared, as if out of pity, in order to let her see her way. And the heaven being, as it were, moved with compassion at beholding her, let fall a flood of tears in the form of drops of dew. And the sun, the friend of the virtuous, rose up so as to comfort her, by revealing to her both hopes and the face of the country, and stretched out the fingers of his rays to wipe away her tears. Then the princess, being a little consoled, wont on slowly by by-paths, avoiding the sight of men; and wounded by the spikes of kuśa grass, she at last reached with difficulty a certain forest, full of birds which seemed to be singing, " Come here, come here!" She entered the wood fatigued, and was, as it were, courteously fanned by the trees with their creepers waving in the wind. So she, full of longing for her beloved, beheld that wood in all the pomp of spring, where the cuckoos cooed sweetly on fragrant mango-trees in full blossom. And in her despondency she said to herself; " Although this breeze from the Malaya mountain, red with the pollen of flowers, scorches me like a fire, and these showers of flowers falling from the trees, while the bees hum, strike me like showers of the arrows of Love, still I will remain here worshipping with these flowers the husband of Ramá, and by so doing purge away my sin." Having formed this resolution, she remained bathing in tanks and living on fruit, devoted to the worship of Vishnu, in order to gain Kamalákara. > — Charles Henry Tawney 1880, The Kathá Sarit Ságara, or Ocean of the Streams of Story ### [12.4.192.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara.12.4.192.p1) - - v v v - - v % A pathyā, pādas compounded? v - - v v - v - % B correct v - -| - v - - v % C pathyā, pādas compounded? - v - v v - v - % D correct > And after she had gone a long distance, and was weary, and her steps began to falter, the night disappeared, as if out of pity, in order to let her see her way. And the heaven being, as it were, moved with compassion at beholding her, let fall a flood of tears in the form of drops of dew. And the sun, the friend of the virtuous, rose up so as to comfort her, by revealing to her both hopes and the face of the country, and stretched out the fingers of his rays to wipe away her tears. Then the princess, being a little consoled, wont on slowly by by-paths, avoiding the sight of men; and wounded by the spikes of kuśa grass, she at last reached with difficulty a certain forest, full of birds which seemed to be singing, " Come here, come here!" She entered the wood fatigued, and was, as it were, courteously fanned by the trees with their creepers waving in the wind. So she, full of longing for her beloved, beheld that wood in all the pomp of spring, where the cuckoos cooed sweetly on fragrant mango-trees in full blossom. And in her despondency she said to herself; " Although this breeze from the Malaya mountain, red with the pollen of flowers, scorches me like a fire, and these showers of flowers falling from the trees, while the bees hum, strike me like showers of the arrows of Love, still I will remain here worshipping with these flowers the husband of Ramá, and by so doing purge away my sin." Having formed this resolution, she remained bathing in tanks and living on fruit, devoted to the worship of Vishnu, in order to gain Kamalákara. > — Charles Henry Tawney 1880, The Kathá Sarit Ságara, or Ocean of the Streams of Story ## Translations (1) - [The Kathá Sarit Ságara, or Ocean of the Streams of Story](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara~en-tawney.12.4.p18) — Charles Henry Tawney 1880, English ## Linked texts (2) - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.172.18) — Sanskrit - [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.5.17.20) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara.12.4.192](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara.12.4.192) · Pramāṇa