For thankless scorn of service done.”

Ungrateful, Vánar King, art thou,

And faithless to thy plighted vow.

For Ráma brought thee help, and yet

Thou shunnest to repay the debt:

Or, grateful, thou hadst surely pressed

To aid the hero in his quest.

Thou art, in vulgar pleasures drowned,

False to thy bond in honour bound.

Nor yet has Ráma's guileless heart