Chapter 45 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 45

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 45.6

तेन तिष्ठसि विस्रब्धं तमपश्यन् महाद्युतिम्। किं हि संशयमापन्ने तस्मिन्निह मया भवेत्॥ कर्तव्यमिह तिष्ठन्त्या यत्प्रधानस्त्वमागतः।

tena tiṣṭhasi visrabdhaṃ tamapaśyan mahādyutim| kiṃ hi saṃśayamāpanne tasminniha mayā bhavet|| kartavyamiha tiṣṭhantyā yatpradhānastvamāgataḥ|

English Meaning

For this it is that you did sit here without anxiety not seeing the highly effulgent (Rāma). Råma, following whom you have repaired to this forest, being in danger, of what avail is life to me.?'

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)