As a colt fastened in a snare cannot see its mother, so Rāma fastened in the bonds of virtue could not look at his mother openly.
स बद्ध इव पाशेन किशोरो मातरं यथा। धर्मपाशेन संयुक्तः प्रकाशं नाभ्युदैक्षत॥