Hearing these words of his, Raghava, overwhelmed with grief, dropped down to the earth, like a tree whose roots have been severed.
तस्य तद्वचनं श्रुत्वा राघवः शोकमूर्च्छितः। निपपात तदा भूमौ छिन्नमूल इव द्रुमः॥