Ayodhyākāṇḍa Song 83: Kauśalyā Questions Kaikeyī’s Gain

कैकयी करी धौं चतुराई कौन? राम-लखन-सिय बनहि पठाए, पति पठए सुरभौन॥ १ ॥ कहा भलो धौं भयो भरतको, लगे तरुन-तन दौन। पुरबासिन्हके नयन नीर बिनु कबहुँ तो देखति हौं न॥ २ ॥ कौसल्या दिन राति बिसूरति, बैठि मनहि मन मौन। तुलसी उचित न होइ रोइबो, प्रान गए सँग जौ न॥ ३ ॥

What clever gain did Kaikeyī achieve? She sent Rāma, Lakṣmaṇa, and Sītā to the forest and dispatched her husband to the realm of the gods. (1) What good came to Bharata? His youthful body has begun to waste away. I never see the city’s people without tears in their eyes. (2) Kauśalyā grieves day and night, sitting silent within herself. Tulsī says even weeping is unfitting, since her life did not depart along with them. (3)