Knowing that the lord of earth had departed, his wives surrounding that illustrious one, smitten with excess of sorrow and weeping bitterly and piteously, holding the king's hands indulged in lamentations, like forlorn ones.
अतीतमाज्ञाय तु पार्थिवर्षभं यशस्विनं तं परिवार्य पत्नयः। भृशं रुदत्यः करुणं सुदुः :खिताः प्रगृह्य बाहू व्यलपन्ननाथवत्॥