नहि वैदेहि रामस्त्वां द्रष्टुं वाप्युपलभ्यते। पुरोबलाकैरसितैर्मेधैर्योत्स्नामिवावृताम्॥ न चापि मम हस्तात्त्वां प्राप्तुमर्हति राघवः। हिरण्यकशिपुः कीर्तिमिन्द्रहस्तगतामिव ॥
nahi vaidehi rāmastvāṃ draṣṭuṃ vāpyupalabhyate| purobalākairasitairmedhairyotsnāmivāvṛtām|| na cāpi mama hastāttvāṃ prāptumarhati rāghavaḥ| hiraṇyakaśipuḥ kīrtimindrahastagatāmiva ||
English Meaning
O Vaidehī, Rāma shall not be able to see you like to the rays of the moon covered with blue clouds preceded by Balākās.* Rāghava shall never get you back from my hands, like to Hiranyakaśipu unable to regain his wife Kirti from Indra. *A kind of crane.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)