सीतया रहितोऽहं वै नहि जीवामि लक्ष्मण। वृतं शोकेन महता सीताहरणजेन माम् ॥ परलोके महाराजो नूनं द्रक्ष्यति मे पिता। कथं प्रतिज्ञां संश्रुत्य मया त्वमभियोजितः॥ अपूरयित्वा तं कालं मत्सकाशमिहागतः।
sītayā rahito'haṃ vai nahi jīvāmi lakṣmaṇa| vṛtaṃ śokena mahatā sītāharaṇajena mām || paraloke mahārājo nūnaṃ drakṣyati me pitā| kathaṃ pratijñāṃ saṃśrutya mayā tvamabhiyojitaḥ|| apūrayitvā taṃ kālaṃ matsakāśamihāgataḥ|
English Meaning
Without Sita I shall not breathe, O Laksmana. A mighty grief has overtaken me in consequence of her being carried away. My father the monarch shall surely behold me in the next world and ask me 'I engaged you in the observance of a vow; without fulfilling that, why have you come here?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)