As Nandan charms the Lord of Gold.

Yea, happy is this tangled grove

Where savage beasts unnumbered rove,

Where, glory of the Warrior race,

King Ráma finds a dwelling-place.”

Thus Bharat, strong-armed hero spake,

And walked within the pathless brake.

O'er plains where gay trees bloomed he went,

Through boughs in tangled net-work bent,

And then from Ráma's cot appeared