Beholding them, Rāghava, the best of men, looked at them and said in accents choked with vapour-Where is Sītā? Being thus addressed by that Lord of men the deer rose up all on a sudden and looked up to the sky facing the south and proceeded to the direction by which Maithili had been carried away.
तांस्तु दृष्ट्वा नरव्याघ्रो राघवः प्रत्युवाच ह॥ क्व सीतेति निरीक्षन् वै बाष्पसंरुद्धया गिरा। एवमुक्ता नरेन्द्रेण ते मृगाः सहसोत्थिताः॥ दक्षिणाभिमुखाः सर्वे दर्शयन्तो नभः स्थलम्।