She sank, insatiate in her woe,

And prostrate lay upon the ground,

While her faint voice by sobs was drowned.

When all the ladies in despair

Saw Queen Kauśalyá wailing there,

And the poor king oppressed with pain,

They flocked around and wept again.

Canto LVIII. Ráma's Message.

The king a while had senseless lain,