It began to walk at pleasure near Rāma's asylum. Sometimes going, sometimes stopping, at one time running very swiftly and receding the next moment, that best of deer began to range at large.
राजीवचित्रपृष्टः स विरराज महामृगः। रामाश्रमपदाभ्याशे विचचार यथासुखम्॥ पुनर्गत्वा निवृत्तश्च विचचार मृगोत्तमः। गत्वा मुहूर्तं त्वरया पुनः प्रतिनिवर्तते॥