 नूनं जात्यन्तरे कस्मिन् स्त्रियः पुत्रैर्वियोजिताः।जनन्या मम सौमित्रे तस्मादेतदुपस्थितम्।। 
 O Lakshmana, surely in one of her previous births did my mother separate women from their sons. That is why this calamity has befallen her.  