Rāmāyaṇacampū 3.22
English (machine translation) 3.22
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3.22
Hearing this speech of disdain from Janaka’s daughter, the Ten-faced One turned his face away in wrath, and addressing the female rākṣasa guards living around her: “All of you must surely make her yield by the four stratagems. If she will not consent, take this wretched woman to the kitchen for tomorrow's morning meal!” Having thus ordered, as the end of night approached, he entered his own dwelling.
Thereupon Janaka’s daughter, the lotus of her heart closed by the display of terrible glares and abusive words from the female night-roamers, assuming the posture of a doe surrounded by a pack of tigers, like a youthful celestial woman fallen to the earth by the force of a curse, fell into anxious thought thus:
“Surely, once Jaṭāyu had passed away after learning what had transpired,
did my noble lord, the sovereign, not discover me staying here? (22)