Chapter 40 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 40

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 40.18

अपक्रान्ते च काकुत्स्थे लक्ष्मणे च यथासुखम्। आहरिष्यामि वैदेही सहस्राक्षः शचीमिव ॥

apakrānte ca kākutsthe lakṣmaṇe ca yathāsukham| āhariṣyāmi vaidehī sahasrākṣaḥ śacīmiva ||

English Meaning

When both Rāma and Laksmana shall go elsewhere in this way, I shall to my felicity carry away Vaidehī like to the thousand-eyed deity carrying away Sací.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)