Rāmāyaṇacampū 2.86_34

2.86_34

“Therefore, on this dear child—who possesses boundless valour through overcoming Bhārgava, whose frightful appearance was marked by the bearing of an axe of supreme sharpness that split the arrogance of the entire warrior class, who is the vessel of beauty, the dwelling place of the people's affection, free of envy, and tender-hearted—I desire, being permitted by the noble elders, to set down this burden of the earth carried for so long, and to enjoy the ease of rest.”
Then, like peacocks uttering unrestrained outpourings of kekā cries caused by contact with supreme joy surging up upon hearing the rumbling roar of rain-clouds, the people made the faces of the quarters resound with the murmuring din born of intense delight.
Then