Chapter 37 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 37

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 37.13

कथं नु तस्य वैदेहीं रक्षितां स्वेन तेजसा। इच्छसे प्रसभं हर्तुं प्रभामिव विवस्वतः॥

kathaṃ nu tasya vaidehīṃ rakṣitāṃ svena tejasā| icchase prasabhaṃ hartuṃ prabhāmiva vivasvataḥ||

English Meaning

How does you then wish to carry away by force his Vaidehī, protected by virtue of her own chastity, like to the rays of Sun?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)