What shall I do with Ayodhyā, my sire having gone the way ordained by the gods? And who will govern her, now that she has been deprived of that foremost of monarchs? Of fruitless birth that I am, what can I do for that magnanimous one? And of him that renounced his life from grief on my account I have not even performed the last rites.
किं करिष्याम्ययोध्यायां ताते दिष्टां गतिं गते। कस्तां राजवराद्धीनामयोध्यां पालयिष्यति॥ किं नु तस्य मया कार्यं दुर्जातेन महात्मनः। यो मृतो मम शोकेन स मया न च संस्कृतः॥