O Lakşmana, what man is there ignorant though he be, who for the sake of a female forsake as my father has done me, his son following his foot-steps?
को ह्यविद्वानपि पुमान् प्रमदायाः कृते त्यजेत्। छन्दानुवर्तिनं पुत्रं तातो मामिव लक्ष्मण ॥