घृतपिण्डोपमान् स्थूलांस्तान् द्विजान् भक्षयिष्यथः। रोहितान् वक्रतुण्डांश्च नलमीनांश्च राघव॥ पम्पायामिषुभिर्मत्स्यास्तत्र राम वरान् हतान्। निस्त्वपक्षानयस्तप्तानकृशानेककण्टकान्॥ तव भक्त्या समायुक्तो लक्ष्मणः सम्प्रदास्यति। भृशं तान् खादतो मत्स्यान् पम्पायाः पुष्पसंचये॥ पद्मगन्धि शिवं वारि सुखशीतमनामयम्। उद्धृत्य स तदाक्लिष्टं रूप्यस्फटिकसंनिभम्॥ अथ पुष्करपर्णेन लक्ष्मणः पाययिष्यति। ।
ghṛtapiṇḍopamān sthūlāṃstān dvijān bhakṣayiṣyathaḥ| rohitān vakratuṇḍāṃśca nalamīnāṃśca rāghava|| pampāyāmiṣubhirmatsyāstatra rāma varān hatān| nistvapakṣānayastaptānakṛśānekakaṇṭakān|| tava bhaktyā samāyukto lakṣmaṇaḥ sampradāsyati| bhṛśaṃ tān khādato matsyān pampāyāḥ puṣpasaṃcaye|| padmagandhi śivaṃ vāri sukhaśītamanāmayam| uddhṛtya sa tadākliṣṭaṃ rūpyasphaṭikasaṃnibham|| atha puṣkaraparṇena lakṣmaṇaḥ pāyayiṣyati| |
English Meaning
O Rāghava do you fare on those plump birds like to a lump of clarified butter and diverse fishes such as Rohita, Vakratunda+, and Nala. O Rama, the devoted Laksmana, shall offer to you, various other best fishes, devoid of scale and fins, plump, filled with bones, having destroyed them with shafts and roasted them in fire. And after you had feasted on them, Lakşmaņa shall bring you water for drinking on a lotus leaf, smelling like a lotus, coming in contact with flowers, delicious, pleasantly cold, wholesome, void of impurities, transparent like silver and crystal. The Rohi fist-Lat. (cyprinus Rohita Ham). A kind of fish resembling a wheel in appearance. A kind of sprai, according to some, a shrimp or prawn.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)