These feeble signs I laugh to scorn.

I could bring down the stars that shine

In heaven with these keen shafts of mine.

Impelled by warlike fury I

Could cause e'en Death himself to die.

I will not seek my home again

Until my pointed shafts have slain

This Raghu's son so fierce in pride,

And Lakshmaṇ by his brother's side.

And she, my sister, she for whom