Chapter 30 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 30

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 30.2

किं त्वामन्यत वैदेहः पिता मे मिथिलाधिपः। राम जामातरं प्राप्य स्त्रियं पुरुषविग्रहम्॥

kiṃ tvāmanyata vaidehaḥ pitā me mithilādhipaḥ| rāma jāmātaraṃ prāpya striyaṃ puruṣavigraham||

English Meaning

What thought of you, O Rāma, my father, the king of Mithilā, accepting you as his son-in-law, who was a man if form but (in deeds)a woman?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)