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'son-in-law, you, the embodiment of
manliness, when you behave like a woman ?
 
AYODHYAKANDA
 
द्युमत्सेनसुतं वीर सत्यवन्तमनुव्रताम् ।
सावित्रीमिव मां विद्धि त्वमात्मवशवर्तिनीम् ॥
 
O hero, know me to be entirely at
your command, like Savitri who devoted
herself to Satyavan, the son of Dyumatsena.
 
न त्वहं मनसाऽप्यन्यं द्रष्टास्मि त्वद्यतेऽनघ ।
त्वया राघव गच्छेयं यथाऽन्या कुलपांसिनी ॥
 
o sinless one, not even in my mind
have I seen any one but you, unlike
a woman who brings defilement to her
family. O Raghava, I must accompany you.
 
स्वयं तु भार्या कौमारीं चिरमध्युषितां सर्ताम् ।
शैळूष इव मां राम परेभ्यो दातुमिच्छसि ॥
 
O Rama, do you, like unto an ordinary
actor (one that lives on his wife's honour )
wish to give me away to others, me who
was wedded to you in tender years, have
lived long with you
and am faithful
to you ?