O highly illustrious and mighty armed Rāma, I knew before by virtue of my asceticism, of this your present destruction and separation from Laksmana.
दृष्टमेतन्महाबाहो क्षयं ते रोमहर्षणम्। लक्ष्मणेन वियोगश्च तव राम महायशः॥