Chapter 51 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 51

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 51.20

बद्धस्त्वं कालपाशेन क्व गतस्तस्य मोक्षसे। वधाय बडिशं गृह्य सामिषं जलजो यथा॥

baddhastvaṃ kālapāśena kva gatastasya mokṣase| vadhāya baḍiśaṃ gṛhya sāmiṣaṃ jalajo yathā||

English Meaning

You have been bound up by the noose of Death; and, proceeding whither, shall you save yourself, like to fish eating up baits with hooks for their own destruction?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)