Speaking thus to Maithili, sweet-speeched and worthy of being sweetly addressed, that highly wicked Raksasa, Rāvaņa, being exercised with lust, approached towards Sītā and got hold of her, like to Budha holding Rohinī in the sky.
इत्युक्त्वा मैथिली वाक्यं प्रियाहाँ प्रियवादिनीम्॥ अभिगम्य सुदृष्टात्मा राक्षसः काममोहितः। जग्राह रावणः सीतां बुधः खे रोहिणीमिव ॥