Chapter 43 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 43

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 43.17

कामवृत्तमिदं रौद्रं स्त्रीणामसदृशं मतम्। वपुषा त्वस्य सत्त्वस्य विस्मयो जनितो मम॥

kāmavṛttamidaṃ raudraṃ strīṇāmasadṛśaṃ matam| vapuṣā tvasya sattvasya vismayo janito mama||

English Meaning

It looks (no doubt) unseemly and terrible and smacks of wilfulness, on the part of a wife to command her husband in this way, but I am sunk in surprise seeing the countenance of the deer.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)