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)