Shloka 4.25.41
वालिनः और्ध्वदैहिकम् — Vali’s Funeral Rites and the Consolation of the Bereaved
प्रहृष्टमिव ते वक्त्रं गतासोरपि मानदआस्तार्कसमवर्णं च लक्ष्यते जीवतो यथा4.25.41।।
eṣa tvāṃ rāmarūpeṇa kālaḥ karṣati vānara | yena sma vidhavāḥ sarvāḥ kṛtā ekeṣuṇā vane || 4.25.42 ||
O Vanara, it is Time itself, in the form of Rama, that drags you away—he who, with a single arrow in the forest, has made widows of us all.
'O revered self! even though you are bereft of life, your face looks cheerful. It carries the colour of the setting Sun, and looks the same when you were alive.
It frames death as an unavoidable satya governed by kāla; dharma reflection arises in accepting cosmic order even amid personal anguish.
Tārā laments that Rāma’s single arrow has killed Vāli, leaving his wives widowed.
Frankness and moral protest within grief—Tārā speaks boldly, voicing the human cost of the event.