लक्ष्मेण सह भ्रात्रा वसतश्च वने तव॥ रक्षसापहृता भार्या मैथिली जनकात्मजा। त्वया वियुक्ता रुदती लक्ष्मणेन च धीमता॥ अन्तरं प्रेप्सुना तेन हत्वा गृधं जटायुषम्। भार्यावयोगजं दुःखं प्रापितस्तेन रक्षसा॥
lakṣmeṇa saha bhrātrā vasataśca vane tava|| rakṣasāpahṛtā bhāryā maithilī janakātmajā| tvayā viyuktā rudatī lakṣmaṇena ca dhīmatā|| antaraṃ prepsunā tena hatvā gṛdhaṃ jaṭāyuṣam| bhāryāvayogajaṃ duḥkhaṃ prāpitastena rakṣasā||
English Meaning
Your wife, Maithili, daughter to Janaka, separated from you as well as the intelligent Laksmana, and weeping (in consequence) was carried off by a Rākṣa. Seeing for opportunities of doing mischief that Rākşa, having slain Jațáyu, has caused to you the grief that comes of separation from one's wife.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)