Chapter 46 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 46

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 46.25

कासि कस्य कुतश्च त्वं किं निमित्तं च दण्डकान्।।३१ एका चरसि कल्याणि घोरान् राक्षससेवितान्।

kāsi kasya kutaśca tvaṃ kiṃ nimittaṃ ca daṇḍakān||31 ekā carasi kalyāṇi ghorān rākṣasasevitān|

English Meaning

Who are you? Whose wife? What for do you range alone in this forest of Dandaka frequented by terrible Rākşasas?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)