मन्थरा तु वचः श्रुत्वा कैकेय्या मधुराक्षरम्। उवाच क्रोधसंयुक्ता वाक्यं वाक्यविशारदा॥ सा विषण्णतरा भूत्वा कुब्जा तस्यां हितैषिणी। विषादयन्ती प्रोवाच भेदयन्ती च राघवम्॥
mantharā tu vacaḥ śrutvā kaikeyyā madhurākṣaram| uvāca krodhasaṃyuktā vākyaṃ vākyaviśāradā|| sā viṣaṇṇatarā bhūtvā kubjā tasyāṃ hitaiṣiṇī| viṣādayantī provāca bhedayantī ca rāghavam||
English Meaning
The hump-backed Mantharā, skilled in speech, who really sought Kaikeyi's welfare, hearing the latter's sweet-accented words, displaying sorrow greater than Kaikeyi's own, lamenting, and enlisting Kaikeyi's feelings against Rāma, uttered words inflamed with anger, saying.
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)