66697602-The-Ramayana-R-K-Narayan

Learned men have compared them to the quiver. I will not
describe to you her waist, which is, as it should be, delicate
and unseen.” It gave him a peculiar relief to recollect Sita’s
features in detail and describe them to Hanuman. Hanuman
absorbed with respectful attention every word of Rama’s,
without interrupting him in any manner. Rama succeeded in
creating a complete picture of Sita in Anjaneya’s mind, and
Anjaneya began to feel that he was going in search of
someone he had already known. In addition to her features,
Rama gave an account of how she spoke, how she walked,
what her voice would sound like, and so on. “When you have
seen this person and if your conscience witnesses to it that
she is the one and only person, approach her, observe the
state of her mind and talk to her. Ask if she remembers how I
saw her first on the terrace of Janaka’s palace on that
evening when I passed along the road in the company of my
master Viswamithra. Did she not say later that if the one who
had snapped Shiva’s bow was other than the one she saw
below her balcony in the company of Viswamithra she would
give up her life? Did she not enter the hall of assembly at her
father’s palace, decked in jewellery, and anxiously glance up
to know if it was I or someone else? Remind her that when
we started out on our exile, we had hardly reached the
towering gates of Ayodhya, when she inquired innocently,
‘Where are the cruel, impossible forests that you spoke of?’
” After this series of messages, Rama took the ring from his
finger and said, “Give this to her. May your mission conclude