de nas khaṅ pa’i dbus na spyod pa’i bya (3)rnams daṅ | | ñe bar brtags pa’i mgyogs ’gro dam bar byed rnams kyis | |
mi dbaṅ sras po log par gśegs la the tshom ste | | mgyogs ’gro de yi dbyaṅs la so sor ram ’degs byas | |
592. And now the women of the after-palace, (hearing the cries of the horses, birds, and beasts,) their hair dishevelled, their faces wan and yellow, their forms sickly to look at, their mouths and lips parched,
593. Their garments torn and unwashed, the soil and heat not cleansed from their bodies,
18. Then the birds that fed in the middle of the house, and the carefully cherished horses that were tied near by, re-echoed the sound of that horse, thinking that it might be the return of the prince.