Your wife, Maithili, daughter to Janaka, separated from you as well as the intelligent Laksmana, and weeping (in consequence) was carried off by a Rākṣa. Seeing for opportunities of doing mischief that Rākşa, having slain Jațáyu, has caused to you the grief that comes of separation from one's wife.
लक्ष्मेण सह भ्रात्रा वसतश्च वने तव॥ रक्षसापहृता भार्या मैथिली जनकात्मजा। त्वया वियुक्ता रुदती लक्ष्मणेन च धीमता॥ अन्तरं प्रेप्सुना तेन हत्वा गृधं जटायुषम्। भार्यावयोगजं दुःखं प्रापितस्तेन रक्षसा॥