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THE RAMAYANA
husband for pure love, I shall be free of
blame. For husband is my god.
Even in the life hereafter, I shall have
happy union with you.
श्रुतिर्हि श्रूयते पुण्या ब्राह्मणानां तपस्विनाम् ।
इह लोके च पितृभिर्या स्त्री यस्य महामते ।
अद्भिर्दत्ता स्वधर्मेण प्रेत्यभावेऽपि तस्य सा ।
Wise one! we hear this pure doctrine
of holy Brahmins : – "A woman who has
been given by the parents with water
according to the rites of the caste to a
high-souled man in this world, is that
man's even in the other world."
भक्तां पतिव्रतां दीनां मां समां सुखदुःखयोः ।
नेतुमर्हसि काकुत्स्थ समानसुखदुःखिनीम् ॥
O Kakutstha, you should take me also,
who am devoted to you, chaste, pitiable
and equable in joy and sorrow, and shar-
ing your joys and sorrows.
किं त्वाऽमन्यत वैदेहः पिता मे मिथिलाधिपः ।
राम जामातरं प्राप्य स्रियं पुरुषविग्रहम् ॥
O Rama, what will my father, king of
Mithila, think after having got as his