Chapter 57 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 57

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 57.7

अपि स्वस्ति भवेद् द्वाभ्यां रहिताभ्यां मया वने। जनस्थाननिमित्तं हि कृतवैरोऽस्मि राक्षसैः॥

api svasti bhaved dvābhyāṃ rahitābhyāṃ mayā vane| janasthānanimittaṃ hi kṛtavairo'smi rākṣasaiḥ||

English Meaning

It is doubtless, we having left (Sītā, whether all is well with her. I having raised the hostility of the Räksasas for the sake of Janasthāna;

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)