Chapter 103 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 103

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 103.38

तान् नरान् बाष्पपूर्णाक्षान् समीक्ष्याथ सुदुःखितान्। पर्यष्वजत धर्मज्ञः पितृवन्मातृवच्च सः॥

tān narān bāṣpapūrṇākṣān samīkṣyātha suduḥkhitān| paryaṣvajata dharmajñaḥ pitṛvanmātṛvacca saḥ||

English Meaning

Seeing those men oppressed with grief with their eyes filled with tears, that one cognizant of virtue like fathers and mothers, embraced those that deserved it.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)