‘Lakshmana, mark the beauty of the forest; whose heart will not be moved to see it? United with their mates, all the birds and beasts seem to be reproaching me.

When the herds of deer see me and scamper away (in fear), their does stop them, saying, ‘You have nothing to fear; you may enjoy yourselves at will, for you are deer by birth; it is only a golden deer that they have come to look for!’

The elephants keep their cow elephants close beside them, as if to teach me a lesson (that a man should never leave his wife alone); "The scriptures however thoroughly studied, must be read over and over again; a king, however well served, should never be regarded as subject to one’s influence,

- and though one cherish a wife in one’s bosom, young woman can no more be ruled by another’s how pleasant the spring is, but to me, bereft of my beloved, it is frightful indeed.

Kamadeva, finding me distressed by separation, languishing and all alone, has made a raid on me with the verdant forest, the bees and the birds.

But his spy (the wind) has seen me with my brother and on his report the mind-born Cupid has, as it were, held up his advancing army and pitched his camp.

The creepers entwining round the spreading trees seem like so many pavilions that he has spread; the plantains and palms are his stately pennons and standards, that none but the boldest could see without amazement;