“O lady, my union with you took place in private. None knew of it and therefore, it is natural that people should have thought that our union was only out of lust and that we were not husband and wife. This son, installed as my heir-apparent, would have been considered as a man of impure birth. Therefore, I was thinking how best to establish your purity.
कृतो लोकपरोक्षोऽयं सम्बन्धो वै त्वया सह। तस्मादेतन्मया देवि त्वच्छुद्ध्यर्थं विचारितम्॥ मन्यते चैव लोकस्ते स्त्रीभावान्मयि संगतम्। पुत्रश्चायं वृतो राज्ये मया तस्माद् विचारितम्॥