कथं तच्चन्द्रसंकाशं मुखमासीन्मनोहरम्। सीतया कानि चोक्तानि तस्मिन्काले द्विजोत्तम॥
kathaṃ taccandrasaṃkāśaṃ mukhamāsīnmanoharam| sītayā kāni coktāni tasminkāle dvijottama||
English Meaning
O you best of birds, how looked the moonlike, pleasant countenance of Sītā at the time of her being carried away? What did she speak then?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)