विनाशितो महाराजः पिता मे धर्मवत्सलः। कस्मात् प्रवाजितो रामः कस्मादेव वनं गतः॥
vināśito mahārājaḥ pitā me dharmavatsalaḥ| kasmāt pravājito rāmaḥ kasmādeva vanaṃ gataḥ||
English Meaning
Why has the king, my father, ever loving virtue, been deprived of life? Why has Rāma been banished; and wherefore has he gone to the woods?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)