- decked with bouquets of flowers and perfumed with sandal and agaru. The peaks of those palaces were bright like towering white clouds and echoed with cries of parrots. [2-88-6]
They were cool and fragrant with perfumes. Having dwelt in the marvellous palaces made of golden-plated walls, that are comparable to mount Meru. [2-88-7]
Many bards, genealogists and panegyrists singing befitting ballads and extolling Rama, scorcher of enemies, virtues at appropriate time used to salute him in reverence (Bharata lamented). [2-88-9]
अश्रद्धेयमिदं लोके न सत्यं प्रतिभाति मा। मुह्यते खलु मे भावः स्वप्नोऽयमिति मे मतिः || २-८८-१०
It is unbelievable that such a thing has happened to Rama in this world. It does not seem real to me and looks appears like a dream and my mind is bewildered. [2-88-10]