Does you not, O tortuous one, know that that one sprung from Kucalya's, self, my eldest brother Räma, who is like a father to me, has ever been the refuge of his friends?
किं नावबुध्यसे क्रूरे नियतं बन्धुसंश्रयम्। ज्येष्ठं पितृसमं रामं कौसल्यायात्मसम्भवम्॥