Chapter 12 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 12

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 12.51

नष्टचित्तो यथोन्मत्तो विपरीतो यथातुरः। हृततेजा यथा सर्पो बभूव जगतीपतिः॥

naṣṭacitto yathonmatto viparīto yathāturaḥ| hṛtatejā yathā sarpo babhūva jagatīpatiḥ||

English Meaning

And then that master of the earth being deprived of his sense, was like a mad man, or a patient with his faculties wildered, or a serpent whose energy has been exhausted.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)