Chapter 24 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 24

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 24.5

नूनं तु बलवाँल्लोके कृतान्तः सर्वमादिशन्। लोके रामाभिरामस्त्वं वनं यत्र गमिष्यसि ॥

nūnaṃ tu balavā~lloke kṛtāntaḥ sarvamādiśan| loke rāmābhirāmastvaṃ vanaṃ yatra gamiṣyasi ||

English Meaning

Certainly Destiny, who crowns or afflicts people with happiness or misery, is the most powerful agency in the world, or why shall you, Oh pleasing Rāma, fly as an exile to the forest?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)