Deprived of lustre, pallid, stricken by sorrow, and lying with her limbs contracted, Kausalya looked like a star enveloped in darkness.
निष्प्रभासा विवर्णा च सन्ना शोकेन संनता। न व्यराजत कौसल्या तारेव तिमिरावृता ॥