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Ramayana and Mahabharata: Book III: The Death of the King.

...And in every bush and thicket herds of lightsome monkeys play... Why is it that Ramayana mentions bush and monkey on the same line?

Ramayana and Mahabharata: Book III: The Death of the King

"Mark, my love," so Rama uttered, "every bush and tree and flower, Tinged by radiant light of morning sparkles in a golden shower... (Reminiscence and allusion to Bush's favorite: "Mark my words ...")

Ramayana and Mahabharata: Book III: The Death of the King

Evening spread its holy stillness, bush and tree its magic felt, As the Gods in Brahma's mansions, exiles in their cottage dwelt. - And this is obviously an allusion to future use of Iranian/Iraqi exiles ...

From the Zoroastrian Dadestan-i Denig, chapters 34-37:

... He also appointed unto our forefathers the equipment which is their own, ... as 'the disintegration of material beings;' he also entrusted the demon Bushasp ... The Bundahishn ("Creation"), or Knowledge from the Zand. The demon Bushasp is she who causes slothfulness; Sej is the fiend (druj) who causes annihilation; and the demon Niyaz is he who causes distress. ... Interesting enough that the demon Bushasp is she. What would that mean?

From Shakuntala, Part II.

..."Fear not," the Prince replied; "I come!" and sprang across the burning bushes, where he saw a snake, a king of serpents, lying curled in a great ring...

Here's another premonition of future struggles: Sakoontala reveals that Anasuya, a pointed blade of Kusa grass has pricked her foot, and her bark-mantle is caught in the branch of a Kuruvaka Bush. She asks the King if he could be so good as to wait for her until she's disentangled the Kuruvaka Bush.