दीर्घकालोषितस्तस्मिन् गिरौ गिरिवरप्रियः। वैदेह्याः प्रियमाकाङ्क्षन् स्वं च चित्तं विलोभयन्॥ अथ दाशरथिश्चित्रं चित्रकूटमदर्शयत्। भार्याममरसंकाशः शचीमिव पुरंदरः॥
dīrghakāloṣitastasmin girau girivarapriyaḥ| vaidehyāḥ priyamākāṅkṣan svaṃ ca cittaṃ vilobhayan|| atha dāśarathiścitraṃ citrakūṭamadarśayat| bhāryāmamarasaṃkāśaḥ śacīmiva puraṃdaraḥ||
English Meaning
Having spent a long time in that mountain, that lover of hills and woods, Dasaratha's son resembling an immortal, anxious to pleasure Vaidehī as well as to please his own mind, showed the variegated Citrakuța to his wife, like Purandara to Sacī.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)