Canto CXII. The Rákshas Dames.

High rose the universal wail

That mourned the monarch's death, and, pale

With crushing woe, her hair unbound,

Her eyes in floods of sorrow drowned,

Forth from the inner chambers came

With trembling feet each royal dame,

Heedless of those who bade them stay

They reached the field where Rávaṇ lay;