Gasping his troubled life away.

But Tárá in the Vánar's hall

Heard tidings of her husband's fall;

Heard that a shaft from Ráma's bow

Had laid the royal Báli low.

Her darling Angad by her side,

Distracted from her home she hied.

Then nigh the place of battle drew

The Vánars, Angad's retinue.

They saw the bow-armed Ráma: dread