Chapter 30 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 30

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 30.20

सा विद्धा बहुभिर्वाक्यैर्दिग्धैरिव गजाङ्गना। चिरसंनियतं बाष्पं मुमोचाग्निमिवारणिः॥

sā viddhā bahubhirvākyairdigdhairiva gajāṅganā| cirasaṃniyataṃ bāṣpaṃ mumocāgnimivāraṇiḥ||

English Meaning

Like to a she-elephant, she being pierced by the poisonous shafts of Rāma's words, began to shed tears, long kept off, as an Araņi wood emits fire continually.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)