Chapter 12 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 12

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 12.65

सतीं त्वामहमत्यन्तं व्यवस्याम्यसती सतीम्। रूपिणीं विषसंयुक्ता पीत्वेव मदिरां नरः।७६ ।।

satīṃ tvāmahamatyantaṃ vyavasyāmyasatī satīm| rūpiṇīṃ viṣasaṃyuktā pītveva madirāṃ naraḥ|76 ||

English Meaning

Like to a goodly liquor, which people having partaken it, subsequently find to contain poison. I have found you, who had passed for a chaste woman, to be now really unchaste.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)