Chapter 20 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 20

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 20.44

यदि ाकाले मरणं यदृच्छया लभेत कश्चिद् गुरुदुःखकर्शितः। गताहमचैव परेतसंसदं विना त्वया धेनुरिवात्मजेन वै॥

yadi ākāle maraṇaṃ yadṛcchayā labheta kaścid guruduḥkhakarśitaḥ| gatāhamacaiva paretasaṃsadaṃ vinā tvayā dhenurivātmajena vai||

English Meaning

If any body in this life, being pressed down with some great calamity, could meet with death of his own accord, I would have instantly gone to the abode of death, being cut off from you like to a cow from her young one.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)