Chapter 38 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 38

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 38.1

तस्यां चीरं वसानायां नाथवत्यामनाथवत्। प्रचुक्रोश जनः सर्वो धिक् त्वां दशरथं त्विति ॥

tasyāṃ cīraṃ vasānāyāṃ nāthavatyāmanāthavat| pracukrośa janaḥ sarvo dhik tvāṃ daśarathaṃ tviti ||

English Meaning

When Şītā, having a husband although seeming as if she had none, was putting on the ascetic guise, the people got into a wrath and exclaimed, “O Dasaratha, fie on you!"

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)