Having stopped again and again, the visage of the monarch lamenting on beholding the track of the car, appeared dim like the Moon invaded by Rāhu,
निवृत्यैव निवृत्यैव सीदतो रथवर्मसु। नाज्ञो नातिबभौ रूपं ग्रस्तस्यांशुमतो यथा॥