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O cruel misbehaving Kaikayi, you shall
forfeit the kingdom, and being lost to
dharma, shall mourn me as dead.
 
AYODHYAKANDA
 
किन्नु तेऽदूषयद्राजा रामो वा भृशधार्मिकः ।
ययोमृत्युर्विवासश्च त्वत्कृते तुल्यमागतौ ॥
 
What harm did the king or the highly
righteous-minded Rama do unto you, that
on account of you, death and exile have
at the same moment come to them?
 
मातृरूपे ममामित्रे नृशंसे राज्यकामुके ।
न तेऽहभिभाष्योऽस्मि दुर्वृत्ते पतिघातिनि ॥
 
O enemy in the guise of mother, cruel
and wicked one, greedy of sovereignty,
slayer of husband, you don't deserve to.
have speech with me.
 
किं नावबुध्यसे कूरे नियतं बन्धुसंश्रयम् ।
ज्येष्ठ पितृसमं रामं कौसल्यायाऽऽत्मसंभवम् ॥
 
O cruel one, have you not understood
my eldest brother Rama, Kausalya's son
who is always the refuge of relatives and
like a father to me ?