And knowing the prowess of the impious Rāvana, I said in rage to my son, versed in speech,-'Hearing her lamentation, and knowing them bereft of Sītā, why didst you not deliver her?'
बुध्यता च मया वीर्यं रावणस्य दुरात्मनः॥ पुत्रः संतर्जितो वाग्भिर्न त्राता मैथिली कथम्।