Chapter 37 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 37

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 37.2

त्यक्तभोगस्य मे राजन् वने वन्येन जीवतः। किं कार्यमनुयात्रेण त्यक्तसङ्गस्य सर्वतः॥

tyaktabhogasya me rājan vane vanyena jīvataḥ| kiṃ kāryamanuyātreṇa tyaktasaṅgasya sarvataḥ||

English Meaning

What O king, have I, that am renouncing everything and am going to dwell in the forest subsisting on what the forest yields, to do with a following?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)