Him formed each eye to captivate:

Fierce passion in her bosom woke,

And thus to Raghu's son she spoke:

“With matted hair above thy brows,

With bow and shaft and this thy spouse,

How hast thou sought in hermit dress

The giant-haunted wilderness?

What dost thou here? The cause explain:

Why art thou come, and what to gain?”

As Śúrpaṇakhá questioned so,