When I am banished to the wild,

If thou, my mother, also fly,

The aged king will surely die.

When wedded dames their lords forsake,

Long for the crime their souls shall ache.

Thou must not e'en in thought within

Thy bosom frame so dire a sin.

Long as Kakutstha's son, who reigns

Lord of the earth, in life remains,

Thou must with love his will obey: