को ह्यविद्वानपि पुमान् प्रमदायाः कृते त्यजेत्। छन्दानुवर्तिनं पुत्रं तातो मामिव लक्ष्मण ॥
ko hyavidvānapi pumān pramadāyāḥ kṛte tyajet| chandānuvartinaṃ putraṃ tāto māmiva lakṣmaṇa ||
English Meaning
O Lakşmana, what man is there ignorant though he be, who for the sake of a female forsake as my father has done me, his son following his foot-steps?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)