Introduction
Balakanda
Ayodhyakanda
Aranyakanda
Kishkindhakanda
Sundarakanda
Lankakanda
Uttarakanda
 


The courtyard, where the four brothers played every day, was magnificent beyond description. In that courtyard Raghunatha frolicked about, to the delight of the queen-mothers, and enjoyed his childish amusements.


His delicate frame was dark of hue with a greenish tinge resembling that of the emerald; every limb had the loveliness of countless toes and nails that outshone the radiance of the moon.


They had soles bearing the four beauteous marks of the thunderbolt, the elephant-goad, the flag and the lotus, and were circled with pretty sweet-tinkling anklets. Round his waist shone a beautiful girdle fashioned of gold and bossed with gems, a girdle with bells that made melodious music.


There were three pretty creases on his belly with a navel shapely and deep; the broad chest gleamed with jewels and raiment of various kinds, all befitting a child.


His roseate hands, nails and fingers were all entrancing and his long arms bedecked with bracelets. He had shoulders resembling those of a lion-cub and a (dimpled) neck shaped like a conch, a rounded chin and a face which was the very perfection of beauty.


He spoke with a lisp and had ruddy lips and a pair of pretty teeth, small and white, both above and below. He had lovely cheeks, an entrancing nose and a smile which gladdened all and was as winsome as the rays of the moon.


His eyes, which resembled a pair of dark-blue lotuses, delivered souls from worldly existence, while his forehead gleamed with a sacred sect-mark made with yellow pigment. He had arched eyebrows, pretty level ears and dark and curling locks that scattered their loveliness all around.


 
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