She, deserving happiness, being racked with the destruction of her delight, spoke thus to Rāghava, that best of men, in the presence of Laksmana.
सा राघवमुपासीनमसुखार्ता सुखोचिता। उवाच पुरुषव्याघ्रमुपशृण्वति लक्ष्मणे ॥