इत्युक्त्वा स रुदंस्त्रस्तो भार्यामाह तु भूमिपः॥ यदहं पुत्रशोकेन संत्यजिष्यामि जीवितम्। चक्षुभ्यां त्वां न पश्यामि कौसल्ये त्वं हि मां स्पृश।।
ityuktvā sa rudaṃstrasto bhāryāmāha tu bhūmipaḥ|| yadahaṃ putraśokena saṃtyajiṣyāmi jīvitam| cakṣubhyāṃ tvāṃ na paśyāmi kausalye tvaṃ hi māṃ spṛśa||
English Meaning
Having said this and weeping, the king said to his wife, “I shall renounce life through grief for my son. And I shall no more behold you with my eyes. Do you, O Kausalyā, touch me."
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)