समूलकाषं चकषू रुदन्तो
रामाऽन्तिकं बृंहितमन्युवेगाः ।
आवेदयन्तः क्षितिपालमुच्चैः
कारं मृतं रामवियोगशोकात् ॥

Karandikar Weeping, with the tempo of their grief accelerated, and reporting vociferously that the King was dead an account of the grief of separation from Rama, they scratched the ground around Rama so that they (seemed to have) dug (the earth) to its very roots.

छन्दः उपजातिः [११]

छन्दोविश्लेषणम्