Pierced with the shafts of Manmatha, Rāghava, as if beholding Sītā though he actually did not see her, uttered the following piteous accents
पश्यन्निव च तां सीतामपश्यन्मन्मन्थार्दितः। उवाच राघवो वाक्यं विलापाश्रयदुर्वचम्॥