पद्मसौगन्धिकैस्तानां शुक्लां कुमुदमण्डलैः। नीलां कुवलयोद्घाटैर्बहुवर्णा कुथामिव ॥ अरविन्दोत्पलवतीं पद्मसौगन्धिकायुताम्। पुष्पिताम्रवणोपेतां बर्हिणोद्घष्टनादिताम्॥ स तां दृष्ट्वा ततः पम्पा रामः सौमित्रिणा सह। विललाप च तेजस्वी रामो दशरथात्मजः॥
padmasaugandhikaistānāṃ śuklāṃ kumudamaṇḍalaiḥ| nīlāṃ kuvalayodghāṭairbahuvarṇā kuthāmiva || aravindotpalavatīṃ padmasaugandhikāyutām| puṣpitāmravaṇopetāṃ barhiṇodghaṣṭanāditām|| sa tāṃ dṛṣṭvā tataḥ pampā rāmaḥ saumitriṇā saha| vilalāpa ca tejasvī rāmo daśarathātmajaḥ||
English Meaning
It was, somewhere, of red hue, in contact with water lilies, somewhere white with Kumudas, somewhere blue with blue lotuses like to a blanket of diverse hues. It was filled with white and red lotuses and encircled with blossoming mangoes groves and resounding with the music of the peacocks. Beholding Pampā, ornamented like a damsel with Tilakas, Bijapuras, (a) figtrees, Sukladrumas, (b) flowery Karavis, blossoming Punnāgas, groves of Mālati (c) and Kunda, (d) Bhandhiras (e) Nichulas, (1) Asokas, Saptaparņas, (g) Ketakas, (h) Atimuktas, (i) and various others trees, Rāma the mighty son of Dasaratha began to lament with Lakşmaņa. [a] Common citron-Lat. (Citrus-medica). [b] Lat. (Symplocos racemosa). (c) Great-flowered Jasmine-Lat. (Jasminum Grandiflorum). [d] A kind of Jasmine-Lat. (F. Multiflorum). [e] Lat. (Memisa Sirisa). [f] Lat. (Barringtonia Acutangula). [g] Lat. (Alstonia-Scholaris). [h] (Pandanus Odoratissiumus). [I] Lat. (Gaeritnera Racemosa).
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)