Sundara Kanda, Sarga 29

Meaning

Like willing attendants flocking round a man favoured by the goddess of fortune, auspicious omens appeared on the person of the aforesaid blessed lady, who, though beyond reproach, was nevertheless agonized, utterly bereft of joy and sore distressed in mind, and had reached the Śiṁśapā tree as aforesaid. (1)

Meaning

The charming left eye alone, of that lady of lovely locks—which was screened with rows of slanting eyelashes, was dark in the middle, large and white all round and coppery at the edge—began repeatedly to throb like a lotus struck gently by a fish. (2)

Meaning

Her charming, graceful, rounded and fleshy left arm too, which deserved to be painted with excellent black aloe and sandalwood paste and had been used for long before this as a pillow by her most excellent darling, Śrī Rāma, at once began to palpitate. (3)

Meaning

Again, of her well-knit thighs, the left one, which was fleshy and beautiful, nay, which resembled the proboscis of a lordly elephant and was visibly throbbing—announced, as it were, the presence of Śrī Rāma standing in front of her. (4)

Meaning

Moreover, the covering of Sītā standing there, of matchless eyes and charming limbs, whose teeth resembled the ends of the seeds of a pomegranate—which was of golden hue and was slightly soiled, as it were, with dust-slipped a bit from her person in a way which augered well for her. (5)

Meaning

Reassured by these and other omens as well, which had come out perfectly true even before, Sītā, of shapely eyelashes, greatly rejoiced even as a seed blighted by the wind and the sun comes back of life through a shower. (6)

Meaning

Again, her countenance with its lips resembling a ripe Bimba fruit in colour and its beautiful eyes, shapely brows, lovely locks, curved eyelashes and set white teeth shone like the full moon released from the mouth of the demon Rāhu. (7)

Meaning

Completely rid of grief, her exhaustion fully relieved, her fever allayed and her mind illumined through joy, the noble lady Sītā looked charming with her countenance as a night with the moon having risen during the bright fortnight. (8)