There burning with grief, the lord of the earth saw her lying down on the ground in an improper guise. And the sinless aged (monarch) saw on the ground his youthful wife dearer to him than life itself, cherishing an unrighteous intention, like a torn creeper, and lying down like a very goddess, resembling a Kinnari fallen from heaven because of sin, like a fallen Apsarā, like to an illusion spread to take another, and like an ensnared doe, or a she-elephant that has been pierced with an envenomed shaft shot by a hunter. And himself resembling a mighty elephant in the midst of a foremost, the king, exceedingly aggrieved, out of affection, gently passing his hand upon Kaikeyi's person, thus addressed her furnished with eyes resembling lotus' petals.
तत्र तां पतितां भूमौ शयानामतथोचिताम्॥ प्रतप्त इव दुःखेन सोऽपश्यज्जगतीपतिः। स वृद्धस्तरुणीं भायां प्राणेभ्योऽपि गरीयसीम्॥ अपापः पापसंकल्पां ददर्श धरणीतले। लतामिव विनिष्कृत्तां पतितां देवतामिव ॥ किंनरीमिव निर्धूतां च्युतामप्सरसं यथा। मायामिव परिभ्रष्टा हरिणीमिव संयताम्॥ करेणुमिव दिग्धेन विद्धां मृगयुना वने। महागज इवारण्ये स्नेहात् परमदुःखिताम्॥ परिमृज्य च पाणिभ्यामभिसंत्रस्तचेतनः। कामी कमलपत्राक्षीमुवाच वनितामिदम्॥