Unhappy, what shall I reply?

“By Queen Kaikeyí long distressed

I drove him forth and dispossessed.”

Although herein the truth I speak,

They all will hold me false and weak.

What will Kauśalyá say when she

Demands her son exiled by me?

Alas! what answer shall I frame,

Or how console the injured dame?

She like a slave on me attends,