Those your wives, having moon-like countenances, have always your welfare in view. Why did you not, O best of monkeys, cast your looks towards them and Sugrīva?
तवेष्टा ननु चैवेमा भार्याश्चन्द्रनिभाननाः। इदानीं नेक्षसे कस्मात सुग्रीवं प्लवगेश्वर ॥