Chapter 29 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 29

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 29.7

न चिरात् प्राप्यते लोके पापानां कर्मणां फलम्। सविषाणामिवान्नानां भुक्तानां क्षणदाचर॥

na cirāt prāpyate loke pāpānāṃ karmaṇāṃ phalam| saviṣāṇāmivānnānāṃ bhuktānāṃ kṣaṇadācara||

English Meaning

O ranger of night, as the effect of having taken rice mixed with poison, appears without delay, even so also people readily reap the fruit of their own acts.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)