'If the lord of the world does not come here before that (time fixed by Ravana) the vile lord of demons will cut me into pieces with weapons just as a surgeon would cut to pieces the foetus with a sharp knife (in order to save a pregnant woman). [5-28-6]
'Alas, two months is too long a time to wait in grief. I am like a thief captured for offending a king and waiting overnight for execution at day-break. [5-28-7]
हा राम हा लक्ष्मण हा सुमित्रे हा राममातः सह मे जनन्या | एषा विपद्याम्यहमल्पभाग्या महार्णवे नौरिव मूढवाता || ५-२८-८
'Alas! Rama, Alas! Lakshmana, Alas! Sumitra, Alas! my mother, Alas! Rama's mother, I am an ill-starred woman going to perish in this way like a light boat capsized in the midst of an ocean when the whirl-wind blows. [5-28-8]
'Just like two mighty lions are killed by a bolt of lightning, the two princes must have been killed by a creature in the guise of a deer on my account. [5-28-9]
नूनं स कालो मृगरूपधारी मामल्पभाग्यां लुलुभे तदानीम् | यत्रार्यपुत्रं विससर्ज मूढा रामानुजं लक्ष्मणपूर्वजं च || ५-२८-१०
'Verily, it is the spirit of the time that assumed the form of deer and tempted this unfortunate soul. It was foolish of me to send away, the sons of a noble king, Lakshmana and his elder brother. [5-28-10]