Have stolen or devoured their prey,

Or surely at my mournful cry

My darling to her lord would fly.

O Lakshmaṇ, see those troops of deer:

In each sad eye there gleams a tear.

Those looks of woe too clearly say

My consort is the giants' prey.

O noblest, fairest of the fair,

Where art thou, best of women, where?

This day will dark Kaikeyí find