And as she, bereft of the company of Răma in the wilderness, was wailing, saying, O Rāma, O Rāma, that one resembling the Destroyer himself, with the view of compassing his own end, seized her by her hair. On Vaidehi being thus outraged, this entire world consisting of mobile and immobile objects, had its nature altered. A dense darkness enveloped (everything).
क्रोशन्ती राम रामेति रामेण रहितां वने। जीवितान्ताय केशेषु जग्राहान्तकसंनिभः॥ प्रधर्षितायां वैदेह्यां बभूव सचराचरम्। जगत् सर्वममर्यादं तमसान्धेन संवृतम्॥