The highly powerful Lakşmaņa having spoken thus being afflicted with grief, Rāma, the best of Raghu's descendants, did not consider that worth pondering over. Renouncing patience he again indulged in excessive grief.
इतीव सौमित्रिमुदापौरुषं ब्रुवन्तमार्तं रघुवंशसत्तमः। न चिन्तयामास धृतिं विमुक्तवान् पुनश्च दुःखं महदभ्युपागमत्॥