Chapter 65 — Aranya Kanda, Sarga 65

Valmiki Ramayana — Aranya Kanda

Verse 65.4

एकस्य नापराधेन लोकान् हन्तुं त्वमर्हसि। ननु जानामि कस्यायं भग्नः सांग्रामिको रथः॥

ekasya nāparādhena lokān hantuṃ tvamarhasi| nanu jānāmi kasyāyaṃ bhagnaḥ sāṃgrāmiko rathaḥ||

English Meaning

It become you not to devastate the whole world for the crime of an individual being. Methinks for certain, this shattered car must be the property of an individual person, not of many.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)