Chapter Three — The Rasika Hero

The youthful companions manifested by Rama were exquisitely beautiful, learned in the arts of love, fitted to every mode of rasa, and adorned with crowns and earrings. (44, completed)

Te sarve vipinaṃ dṛṣṭvā śobhamānaṃ manoramam,
Kāmābhi-bāṇa-saṃviddhā matta-gāna-samutsukāḥ. (45)

Beholding the radiant, enchanting forest, all those companions were pierced by the flower-arrows of divine desire and became eagerly absorbed in ecstatic song.

Vidyun-mukha-śrī-madhu-mudritayor rasika-nāyako jayaty anantātma-padaḥ,
Jalada-paṭala-nīlo vividha-rati-vidyā-nāgaro Rāmaḥ. (46)

Victory to Rama, supreme hero of the rasikas: dark as a mass of rainclouds, lovely-faced as the moon amid lightning, able to assume boundless forms, and consummately skilled in every art of divine love.

Thus ends the Third Chapter of the supremely secret Śrī Hanumat Saṃhitā, the great festival of the mahārāsa, in the dialogue between Hanuman and Agastya.

The printed edition further identifies the commentary as the Śrī Sītārāma-rahasya-prakāśikā, composed by Śrīmad Devacharya Vanshavant Śrī Swami Priyasharanji Maharaj—known as Madhukar, “the Honeybee”—and devoted to the lotus feet of Sri Janaki.