“When Ráma, Daśaratha's son,

Destroys thee and the fight is won,

Thy proper shape once more assume,

And heaven again shall give thee room.”

When thus the angry God replied,

No prayers could turn his wrath aside,

And thus on me his fury fell

For loving Rambhá's[409] charms too well.

Now through thy favour am I freed

From the stern fate the God decreed,