Chapter 26 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 26

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 26.30

स्नुषास्मि यदवोचस्त्वमेकपत्नीष्वयं क्रमः। देवलोकस्थितिरियं सुराणां शाश्वती मता॥ पतिरप्सरसां नास्ति न चैकस्त्रीपरिग्रहः।

snuṣāsmi yadavocastvamekapatnīṣvayaṃ kramaḥ| devalokasthitiriyaṃ surāṇāṃ śāśvatī matā|| patirapsarasāṃ nāsti na caikastrīparigrahaḥ|

English Meaning

"I am daughter-in-law,” as you have said, is worthy of being said by one who is the only wife. This is the everlasting law of the celestials that the Apsarās have no husband; they cannot be the wife of one husband.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)