What thought of you, O Rāma, my father, the king of Mithilā, accepting you as his son-in-law, who was a man if form but (in deeds)a woman?
किं त्वामन्यत वैदेहः पिता मे मिथिलाधिपः। राम जामातरं प्राप्य स्त्रियं पुरुषविग्रहम्॥