Beholding the broad-chested and mightyarmed Vali, Mahendra's son, wearing a golden garland and having a flaming countenance and yellow eyes, thus struck down to the earth, resembling a flameless fire in the field of battle, like to Yayāti, slipped from the abode of the celestials on the wane of his piety, like to a tree falling down to the earth at the time of Dissolution, hard to repress as Mahendra himself, incapable to withstand like Upendra, Rāma, followed by Lakşmaņa, approached and beheld him. And paying respects to that hero falling on the earth like to a flameless fire and eyeing him again and again those two highly powerful brothers, Rāma and Laksmana neared him.
तं तथा पतितं संख्ये गतार्चिषमिवानलम्। ययातिमिव पुण्यान्ते देवलोकादिह च्युतम्॥ आदित्यमिव कालेन युगान्ते भुवि पातितम्। महेन्द्रमिव दुर्धर्षमुपेन्द्रमिव दुःसहम्॥ महेन्द्रपुत्रं पतितं वालिनं हेममालिनम्। व्यूढोरस्कं महाबाहुं दीप्तास्यं हरिलोचनम् ॥ लक्ष्मणानुचरो रामो ददर्शोपससर्प च। तं तथा पतितं वीरं गतार्चिषमिवानलम्॥ बहुमान्य च तं वीरं वीक्षमाणं शनैरिव। उपयातौ महावीयौं भ्रातरौ रामलक्ष्मणौ॥