तद्वनं मथितैर्वृक्षैभिन्नैश्च सलिलाशयैः। चूर्णितैः पर्वतायैश्च बहुधा प्रियदर्शनैः॥ नानाशकुन्तविरुतैः प्रभिन्नसलिलाशयैः। तानैः किसलयैः क्लान्तैः क्लान्तद्रुमलतायुतैः॥ न बभौ तद् वनं तत्र दावानलहतं यथा। व्याकुलावरणा रेजुर्विह्वला इव ता लताः॥
tadvanaṃ mathitairvṛkṣaibhinnaiśca salilāśayaiḥ| cūrṇitaiḥ parvatāyaiśca bahudhā priyadarśanaiḥ|| nānāśakuntavirutaiḥ prabhinnasalilāśayaiḥ| tānaiḥ kisalayaiḥ klāntaiḥ klāntadrumalatāyutaiḥ|| na babhau tad vanaṃ tatra dāvānalahataṃ yathā| vyākulāvaraṇā rejurvihvalā iva tā latāḥ||
English Meaning
And with its trees crushed and its tanks damaged, with its fair peaks shattered in fragments and its pools eloquent with the notes of birds, riven all over, with coppery and withered sprays cast about (in all directions), and with its trees and plants shorn of their liveliness, that wood was no longer beautiful, as if it had been burnt up by a forest-fire; and its plants resembled damsels with their apparel falling off.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)