| Seeta, hearing
these words, could only shed tears. "What
sinful words you utter!" she said. "Never can I do what you say. You tell me
that Raama is poor, and wretched and an exiIe from his home. All this I know. But among us
of the race of men, no wife would think of giving up her husband on such grounds. It is
wicked for the Raakshasa king to desire me for his wife. As the sun's brightness
belongs inseparably to the sun so do I belong to Raama. As Sachi is faithful to Indra, or
Arundhati to Vasishtha, so am I ever to Raama."
The raakshasis gave up all hopes of
persuading her and said to one another: "What can one do with a stubborn fool like
this? It is best to eat her before she gets too thin with brooding!" |
