नास्ति धर्मः कुतः सत्यं नार्जवं नानृशंसता। यत्र रामस्य वैदेही सीतां हरति रावणः॥ इता भूतानि सर्वाणि गणशः पर्यदेवयन्। वित्रस्तका दीनमुखा रूरुदुर्मुगपोतकाः॥
nāsti dharmaḥ kutaḥ satyaṃ nārjavaṃ nānṛśaṃsatā| yatra rāmasya vaidehī sītāṃ harati rāvaṇaḥ|| itā bhūtāni sarvāṇi gaṇaśaḥ paryadevayan| vitrastakā dīnamukhā rūrudurmugapotakāḥ||
English Meaning
Virtue is not; and where is truth? And there is neither sincerity nor kindness, in a case in which Rāvana is carrying away Rāma's Vaidehī; thus did all creatures lament in numbers. And the young of deer, afflicted with fear, wept with woe-began faces.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)