Chapter 51 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 51

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 51.22

यथा त्वया कृतं कर्म भीरुणा लोकगर्हितम्। तस्कराचरितो मार्गो नैष वीरनिषेवितः॥

yathā tvayā kṛtaṃ karma bhīruṇā lokagarhitam| taskarācarito mārgo naiṣa vīraniṣevitaḥ||

English Meaning

What have been perpetrated by you coward, is blamed by all, and is the way taken recourse to by thieves and not by heroes.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)