Born in the imperial race, and capable of conferring happiness on all, the bringer-about of all good, why did Rāghava of dark blue hue like that of a lotus, graceful, and crowned with red eyes, the inheritor of happiness and undeserving of misery, having left his dear consummate kingdom, lie down on the ground?
सार्वभौमकुले जातः सर्वलोकसुखावहः। सर्वप्रियकरस्त्यक्त्वा राज्यं प्रियमनुत्तमम्॥ कथमिन्दीवरश्यामो रक्ताक्षः प्रियदर्शनः। सुखभागी न दुःखार्हः शयितो भुवि राघवः॥