The voices of the birds of air

Great peril to the host declare:

The moving beasts the dread allay,

So drive thy whelming fear away,”

As he and Daśaratha spoke

A tempest from the welkin broke,

That shook the spacious earth amain

And hurled high trees upon the plain.

The sun grew dark with murky cloud,

And o'er the skies was cast a shroud,