To lose Ayodhyá or the sky.

As one defiled with hideous sin,

I never more can pass within

Ayodhyá, city of our king,

Unless beside me thee I bring.

One wish is mine, I ask no more,

That, when thy banishment is o'er

I in my car may bear my lord,

Triumphant, to his home restored.

The fourteen years, if spent with thee,