Alas! O best of kings, this unbearable sin has been driving away all pious feelings from my heart like to alloy leaking out of discoloured gold when molten in fire, O Rāghava.
अंहो वतेदं नृवराविषह्यं निवर्तते मे हृदि साधुवृत्तम्। अग्नौ विवर्णं परितप्यमानं किट्टं यथा राघव जातरूपम्॥