Resting the head of the lifeless monarch in her own lap and severely reproaching Kaikeyī, Kausalyā grievously mourns for Śrī Rāma and other exiles. Holding back Kausalyā - who was lamenting with her arms placed round her deceased husbandís bosomó and consigning the Emperor’s dead body to a trough filled with oil, the ministers and other functionaries return each to his own abode in the evening.