सर्गः ५९

In which dawn attendants find lifeless Daśaratha while bedchamber women wail and awakened queens fall crying as palace mourns

Bards and bath women attend at dawn — Bedchamber women try to wake king — Trembling women confirm feared death — Widowed women wail like leaderless elephants — Cry wakes Kausalyā and Sumitrā — Queens cry hā lord and fall — Kausalyā writhes dust-covered like fallen star — Palace turns tumultuous grief-crowded — Surrounding wives lament holding arms