Truly my wife, timid as she is, has been carried away by a Rākşasa by the ethereal track. Alas! doubtless it is, that one of pleasant accents, wept piteously out of fear many a time and oft.
सा नूनमार्या मम राक्षसेन ह्यभ्याहता खं समुपेत्य भीरुः। अप्यस्वरं सुस्वरविप्रलापा भयेन विक्रन्दितवत्यभीक्ष्णम्॥