Is basely in a puddle slain;

And I, the graceless wife he wed,

Have brought this ruin on his head.

Me, too, on him, O Rávaṇ, slay:

The wife beside her husband lay.

By his dear body let me rest,

Cheek close to cheek and breast to breast,

My happy eyes I then will close,

And follow whither Ráma goes.”

Thus cried the miserable dame;