Example Sentences:

Ramayana: When Sita refused to live in Ravana’s palace, he kept her in detention in his favorite garden, Ashok Vatika. 

Mahabharata: Bhishma told Duryodhana that Krishna had been born in a prison cell where his parents had been kept in detention by the wicked Kamsa.

Bhagavad-gita: If we try for self-control only by keeping our dark desires in detention without developing better desires, we set ourselves up for frustration.