O Kusika's son, I am sixty thousand years old; and (at this age) I have obtained Rāma after undergoing extreme troubles, it therefore, become you not to take Rāma.
षष्टिवर्षसहस्राणि जातस्य मम कौशिक॥ कृच्छ्रेणोत्पादितश्चायं न रामं नेतुमर्हसि।