Chapter 12 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 12

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 12.95

नृशंसवृत्ते व्यसनप्रहारिणि प्रसह्य वाक्यं यदिहाद्य भाषसे। न नाम ते तेन विशीर्यमाणा दशनाः सहस्रधा॥

nṛśaṃsavṛtte vyasanaprahāriṇi prasahya vākyaṃ yadihādya bhāṣase| na nāma te tena viśīryamāṇā daśanāḥ sahasradhā||

English Meaning

O you cruelly-disposed, O you bringer on of calamities, since banishing all sense of the relation in which we stand to each other as husband and wife, you have spoken thus, why reduced to thousand fragments your teeth drop not from off your mouth down to the ground?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)