O you of great prowess, up to this time we have lived happily in your kingdom. And now, O Räma, under your subjection we are being troubled with the sorrow or our son's death. We have been brought under the influence of Kāla; so in your kingdom there is not the least happiness for us.
उषिताः स्म सुखं राज्ये तवास्मिन्सुमहाबल॥ इदं तु पतितं तस्मात्तव राम वशे स्थितान्। कालस्य वशमापन्नाः स्वल्पं हि नहि नः सुखम्॥