Verse 19

¹⁵Sita, sent away by her husband, left the two boys with the sage and, holding Rama's feet in her mind, went down into a cleft in the earth. ¹⁶Hearing of it, the Bhagavan Rama held his grief back by thought; and yet, remembering this good in her and that, he could not hold it back, Lord though he is. ¹⁷The joining of woman and man is like this: it carries fear everywhere, even for lords. How much more for an ordinary man whose mind is on his house. ¹⁸From then on the mighty one held to chastity, and for thirteen thousand years he made the fire offering without a break. ¹⁹Rama set his own foot, soft as a new leaf and pierced by the thorns of the Dandaka, in the hearts of those who remember him, and then went to the light that is his own self.