And beholding Jațāyu, sigh again and again and breathing with difficulty in a helpless plight, Rāma, highly aggrieved, spoke to Lakşmaņa.
एकमेकायने कृच्छ्रे नि:श्वसन्तं मुहुर्मुहुः। समीक्ष्य दुःखितो रामः सौमित्रिमिदमब्रवीत्॥