विवर्धमानो वीर्येण समुद्र इव पर्वणि। हतं मेने तदा राम वसिष्ठमृषिसत्तमम्॥
vivardhamāno vīryeṇa samudra iva parvaṇi| hataṃ mene tadā rāma vasiṣṭhamṛṣisattamam||
English Meaning
Surcharged with energy, like to the sea during the equinox, he considered, O Rāma, as if that foremost of saints, Vasistha, was already slain.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)