समुद्धृतनिधानानि परिध्वस्ताजिराणि च। उपात्तधनधान्यानि हृतसाराणि सर्वशः॥ रजसाभ्यवकीर्णानि परित्यक्तानि दैवतैः। मूषकैः परिधावद्भिरुद्विलैरावृतानि च॥ अपेतोदकधूमानि हीनसम्मार्जनानि च। प्रणष्टबलिकर्मेज्यामन्त्रहोमजपानि च॥ दुष्कालेनेव भग्नानि भिन्नभाजनवन्ति च। अस्मत्यक्तानि कैकेयी वेश्मानि प्रतिपद्यताम्॥
samuddhṛtanidhānāni paridhvastājirāṇi ca| upāttadhanadhānyāni hṛtasārāṇi sarvaśaḥ|| rajasābhyavakīrṇāni parityaktāni daivataiḥ| mūṣakaiḥ paridhāvadbhirudvilairāvṛtāni ca|| apetodakadhūmāni hīnasammārjanāni ca| praṇaṣṭabalikarmejyāmantrahomajapāni ca|| duṣkāleneva bhagnāni bhinnabhājanavanti ca| asmatyaktāni kaikeyī veśmāni pratipadyatām||
English Meaning
Let Kaikeyi possess herself of our deserted mansions, deprived of their buried treasures, with their un-swept courtyards robbed of kine and wealth, and shorn of all substance, filled with dust, and abandoned by the deities, mansions where rats will run from hole to hole, which will neither emit smoke nor contain water, which will not be swept by broomsticks, from which sacrifices, and the slaughter of sacrificial beasts, and the offering of oblations, and the recitation of sacred texts, and Japa, will be absent, and around which will be strewn broken carthenware, as they are on occasions of political commotion's or the occurrence of natural calamities.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)