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THE RAMAYANA
deserves respectful treatment from you to
whom duty is above everything.
वन्दितव्याश्च ते नित्यं याः शेषा मम मातरः ।
स्नेहप्रणयसंभोगैः समा हि मम मातरः ॥
My other mothers too deserve to be
honoured always by you. For to me my
mothers are all alike in respect of friend-
ship, love and enjoyments.
सा त्वं वसेह कल्याणि राज्ञः समनुवर्तिनी ।
भरतस्य रता धर्मे सत्यव्रतपरायणा ।
O good one, following the mandates of
king Bharata, live here devoted to righte-
ousness and practising the vow of truth."
एवमुक्ता तु वैदेही प्रिया प्रियवादिनी ।
प्रणयादेव संक्रुद्धा भर्तारमिदमब्रवीत् ॥
Being thus told, Sita worthy of love and
speaker of sweet words but being angered
because of her very love, spoke to her
husband thus :
किमिदं भाषसे राम वाक्यं लघुतया ध्रुवम् ॥
" O Rama, why do you make a sure.
statement of which the levity is obvious?
THE RAMAYANA
deserves respectful treatment from you to
whom duty is above everything.
वन्दितव्याश्च ते नित्यं याः शेषा मम मातरः ।
स्नेहप्रणयसंभोगैः समा हि मम मातरः ॥
My other mothers too deserve to be
honoured always by you. For to me my
mothers are all alike in respect of friend-
ship, love and enjoyments.
सा त्वं वसेह कल्याणि राज्ञः समनुवर्तिनी ।
भरतस्य रता धर्मे सत्यव्रतपरायणा ।
O good one, following the mandates of
king Bharata, live here devoted to righte-
ousness and practising the vow of truth."
एवमुक्ता तु वैदेही प्रिया प्रियवादिनी ।
प्रणयादेव संक्रुद्धा भर्तारमिदमब्रवीत् ॥
Being thus told, Sita worthy of love and
speaker of sweet words but being angered
because of her very love, spoke to her
husband thus :
किमिदं भाषसे राम वाक्यं लघुतया ध्रुवम् ॥
" O Rama, why do you make a sure.
statement of which the levity is obvious?