Chapter 104 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 104

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 104.13

रामेणेङ्गुदिपिण्याकं पितुर्दत्तं समीक्ष्य मे। कथं दुःखेन हृदयं न स्फोटति सहस्रधा॥

rāmeṇeṅgudipiṇyākaṃ piturdattaṃ samīkṣya me| kathaṃ duḥkhena hṛdayaṃ na sphoṭati sahasradhā||

English Meaning

Seeing the Ingudi pinda offered by Rāma to his father, why does not my heart break into a thousand shivers?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)