While Rāma, having moon-like countenance, was speaking thus, the stars became fewer in the welkin, and east, stricken with the early rays of the sun, appeared like a damsel, clothed in a raiment coloured with the dye of flowers.
इति कथयति रामे चन्द्रतुल्याननेन प्रविरलतरतारं व्योम जज्ञे तदानीम्। अरुणकिरणरक्ता दिग्बभौ चैव पूर्वा कुसुमरसविमुक्तं वस्त्रमागुण्ठितेव॥