Rāmāyaṇacampū 2.3

2.3

The world indeed does not acknowledge a path contrary to the sacred scriptures that you accept; hence, there is a certain request to be made.
“Whether due to my weapons, whose fame was sung by gods and mortals, / or through my heroic deeds equal in measure in heaven and on earth, / old age, inevitably unavoidable, has appeared upon my body, / like moonlight upon a bed of blooming lotuses. // 3