His grievous burden of despair.

Over his sinking bosom rolled

The flood of sorrow uncontrolled.

And as he wept and sighed,

In mournful accents faint and slow

With words congenial to his woe,

To Lakshmaṇ thus he cried:

“Brother, I ween, beneath the sun,

Of all mankind there lives not one

So full of sin, whose hand has done