Chapter 27 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 27

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 27.4

आर्यपुत्र पिता माता भ्राता पुत्रस्तथा स्नुषा। स्वानि पुण्यानि भुञ्जानाः स्वं स्वं भाग्यमुपासते॥ भर्तुर्भाग्यं तु नार्येका प्राप्नोति पुरुषर्षभ। अतश्चैवाहमादिष्टा वने वस्तव्यमित्यपि॥

āryaputra pitā mātā bhrātā putrastathā snuṣā| svāni puṇyāni bhuñjānāḥ svaṃ svaṃ bhāgyamupāsate|| bharturbhāgyaṃ tu nāryekā prāpnoti puruṣarṣabha| ataścaivāhamādiṣṭā vane vastavyamityapi||

English Meaning

Oh dear husband, father, mother, son, brother, daughter-in-law, all of them abide by the consequences of their own actions, it is the wife alone, Oh best of men, that shares the fate of her husband; it is therefore that ever along with you I have been ordered to live in the forest.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)