इहैव निधनं याम महाप्रस्थानमेव वा। रामेण रहितानां नो किमर्थं जीवितं हितम्॥
ihaiva nidhanaṃ yāma mahāprasthānameva vā| rāmeṇa rahitānāṃ no kimarthaṃ jīvitaṃ hitam||
English Meaning
Here will we either renounce our lives, or direct our course to the north to meet death. Of what good are our lives, when we have been deprived of Rāma?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)