On that thunder-bolt of a speech being uttered by Bharata, like to a (real) thunder-bolt hurled in battle by the enemy of the Dānavas (Indra), that subduer of foes, Rāma, stretching his arms, fell down to the earth, like a blossoming tree that has been hewn by an axe.
तं तु वज्रमिवोत्सृष्टमाहवे दानवारिणा। वाग्वजं भरतेनोक्तममनोज्ञं परंतपः॥ प्रगृह्य रामो बाहु वै पुष्पिताङ्ग इव दुमः। वने परशुना कृत्तस्तथा भुवि पपात ह॥