किं नावबुध्यसे क्रूरे नियतं बन्धुसंश्रयम्। ज्येष्ठं पितृसमं रामं कौसल्यायात्मसम्भवम्॥
kiṃ nāvabudhyase krūre niyataṃ bandhusaṃśrayam| jyeṣṭhaṃ pitṛsamaṃ rāmaṃ kausalyāyātmasambhavam||
English Meaning
Does you not, O tortuous one, know that that one sprung from Kucalya's, self, my eldest brother Räma, who is like a father to me, has ever been the refuge of his friends?
— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)