This is the fifth night of the banishment of Rāma, as calculated by me; and to me rendered cheerless by sorrow, this interval has assumed the proportions of five years.
वनवासाय रामस्य पञ्चरात्रोऽत्र गण्यते। यः शोकहतहर्षायाः पञ्चवर्षोपमो मम॥