भूतोपहतचित्तेव ब्रुवन्ती मां न लज्जसे। शीलव्यसनमेतत् ते नाभिजानाम्यहं पुरा।५७।। बालायास्तत् त्विदानी ते लक्षये विपरीतवत्। कुतो वा ते भयं जातं या त्वमेवंविधं वरम्॥ राष्ट्रे भरतमासीनं वृणीषे राघवं वने। विरमैतेन भावेन त्वमेतेनानृतेन च ॥ यदि भर्तुः प्रियं कार्यं लोकस्य भरतस्य च। नृशंसे पापसंकल्पे क्षुद्रे दुष्कृतकारिणि ॥
bhūtopahatacitteva bruvantī māṃ na lajjase| śīlavyasanametat te nābhijānāmyahaṃ purā|57|| bālāyāstat tvidānī te lakṣaye viparītavat| kuto vā te bhayaṃ jātaṃ yā tvamevaṃvidhaṃ varam|| rāṣṭre bharatamāsīnaṃ vṛṇīṣe rāghavaṃ vane| viramaitena bhāvena tvametenānṛtena ca || yadi bhartuḥ priyaṃ kāryaṃ lokasya bharatasya ca| nṛśaṃse pāpasaṃkalpe kṣudre duṣkṛtakāriṇi ||
English Meaning
Do you not feel shame to speak thus to me, like one whose faculties have been possessed by an evil spirit? I did not know before, when you was youthful that your nature was so perverted but now I find the very reverse of what I then thought. Whence proceed they fear that you ask for such a boon, the establishment of Bharata in the kingdom, and the banishment of Rāma into the woods? Do you cease to urge such a suit that is fraught with evil to your wifely virtue, and that will render my word untrue, if you wish for the good of your husband, of the people, and Bharata. O cruel woman; O you that intend sinfully, O base wretch 'o doer of impious deeds.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)