How having sprung from Dasaratha of righteous deeds and born of immaculate race, and knowing virtue and vice, can I commit such a reprehensible action?
कथं दशरथाज्जातः शुभाभिजनकर्मणः। जानन् धर्ममधर्मं च कुर्यां कर्म जुगुप्सितम्॥