Kausalyă serves me at the same time like a slave, and a friend, and wife, and sister, and mother. Ever studious of my welfare, dearly loving her son, and speaking every one fair, that exalted lady, although deserving of homage at my hands, has up to this time not been regarded by me, because of you.
यदा यदा च कौसल्या दासीव च सखीव च॥ भार्यावद् भगिनीवच्च मातृवच्चोपतिष्ठति। सततं प्रियकामा मे प्रियपुत्रा प्रियंवदा॥ न मया सत्कृता देवी सत्कारार्हा कृते तव।