In your dominions, O monarch, exercised by the calamity that has befallen Rāma, even trees bearing blossoms and buds and sprouts look sad; the rivers and pools and liquid lapses have their waters dried up; and the woods and groves have their foliage withered.
विषये ते महाराज महाव्यसनकर्शिताः। अपि वृक्षाः परिम्लानाः सपुष्पाकुरकोरकाः॥ उपतप्तोदका नद्यः पल्वलानि सरांसि च। परिशुष्कपलाशानि वनान्युपवनानि च॥