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“Telugu:
ఆ తుష్టికీ యీ నష్టికీ సరి”
English Translation:
That profit and this loss are equal.

“Telugu:
నాకూ నా పిల్లలకూ నూరేండ్లు ఆయుస్సు, నా పెనిమిటికి లోకము తోటిపాటు”
English Translation:
As for me and my children, let our age be a hundred years ; as for my husband, let him take his chance in the world.The prayer of a. wife who did not love her lord.

“Telugu:
పేరు పెనిమిటిది, అనుభవము మామగారిది”
English Translation:
The name is my husband’s, the suffering is my father-in law’s.Said by Sita to the Rishis’ wives when they condoled with her on her husband’s sufferings. She knew that Rama’s misfortune was not to be compared with that of her father-in-law Dasaratha who died of grief, cursed by the old hermit whose son he had accidentally killed.The name with one, the reality with another.