द्रष्टुं सर्वत्र निर्भीता त्वया नाथेन धीमता। हंसकारण्डवाकीर्णाः पद्मिनीः साधुपुष्पिताः॥ इच्छेयं सुखिनी द्रष्टुं त्वया वीरेण संगता। अभिषेकं करिष्यामि तासु नित्यमनुव्रता॥ सह त्वया विशालाक्ष रंस्ये परमनन्दिनी। एवं वर्षसहस्राणि शतं वापि त्वया सह॥ व्यतिक्रमं न वेत्स्यामि स्वर्गोऽपि हि न मे मतः। स्वर्गेऽपि च विना वासो भविता यदि राघव। त्वया विना नरव्याघ्र नाहं तदपि रोचये॥
draṣṭuṃ sarvatra nirbhītā tvayā nāthena dhīmatā| haṃsakāraṇḍavākīrṇāḥ padminīḥ sādhupuṣpitāḥ|| iccheyaṃ sukhinī draṣṭuṃ tvayā vīreṇa saṃgatā| abhiṣekaṃ kariṣyāmi tāsu nityamanuvratā|| saha tvayā viśālākṣa raṃsye paramanandinī| evaṃ varṣasahasrāṇi śataṃ vāpi tvayā saha|| vyatikramaṃ na vetsyāmi svargo'pi hi na me mataḥ| svarge'pi ca vinā vāso bhavitā yadi rāghava| tvayā vinā naravyāghra nāhaṃ tadapi rocaye||
English Meaning
Being fearless in your company, Oh my intelligent husband and great hero, I shall behold on all sides ponds filled with wild geese and ducks and beautified with a collection of fullblown lotuses, and shall bathe there every day, pursuing the same vow with you. And greatly gratified, I shall, Oh you having expansive eyes, amuse there with you, in this manner, even for hundred or thousand years. I shall never experience the reverse of fortune, inasmuch as I do not like to live in the abode of celestials, Oh Rāghava, if I am to dwell there without you; no, it is not pleasing to me, Oh best of men.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)