सर्गः २३
In which Sita, spurned by the guards and scorched by grief, clings to an ashoka bough and wails for Rama and home.
Sita rejects rakshasi demands — Sita trembles like lost doe — Sita grasps flowering ashoka branch — Sita wails for Rama Lakshmana Kausalya Sumitra — Sita calls death unattainable and life unbearable — Sita curses helpless dependence