I heard not of my brother's fate.”

Thus King Sampáti spoke and sighed:

And royal Angad thus replied:

“If, brother of Jatáyus, thou

Hast heard the tale I told but now,

Obedient to mine earnest prayer

The dwelling of that fiend declare.

O, say where cursed Rávaṇ dwells,

Whom folly to his death impels.”

He ceased. Again Sampáti spoke,