Thereupon the charioteer with joined hands spoke to the mighty monarch, lamenting for Rāma, influenced by grief and sorrow, aged, burning in grief, like a newly-taken elephant, sighing heavily, plunged in thought, and resembling an elephant that is indisposed. Then the king like one exceedingly distressed, spoke to the charioteer, who had presented himself, covered over with dust, with tears starting from his eyes, and in pitiable guise.
तदा सूतो महाराज कृताञ्जलिरुपस्थितः। राममेवानुशोचन्तं दुःखशोकसमन्वितम्॥ वृद्धं परमसंतप्तं नवग्रहमिव द्विपम्। विनिःश्वसन्तं ध्यायन्तमस्वस्थमिव कुञ्जरम्॥ राजा तु रजसा सूतं ध्वस्ताङ्ग समुपस्थितम्। अश्रुपूर्णमुखं दीनमुवाच परमार्तवत्॥