Hearing these brazen words of Sītā, capable of making one's down stand on end, the selfcontrolled Lakşmaņa with joined hands spake to her saying You are a very Goddess to me, I therefore dare not answer you.
इत्युक्तः परुषं वाक्यं सीतया रोमहर्षणम्॥ अब्रवील्लक्ष्मणः सीतां प्राञ्जलिः स जितेन्द्रियः। उत्तरं सोत्सहे वक्तुं दैवतं भवता मम ॥