Invoking the sacred fire...

Canto IPurvamegha — The Cloud's Journey North
Canto I — Exile at Ramagiri
प्रथमः सर्गः
A banished yaksha, eight months into a year-long exile on Rama's peak in the Vindhyas, sees the first monsoon cloud charge the cliff and begs it — half in grief, half in hope — to carry a message to his distant wife in Alaka.