Chapter 39 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 39

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 39.20

एष स्वभावो नारीणामनुभूय पुरा सुखम्। अल्पामप्यापदं प्राप्य दुष्यन्ति प्रजहत्यपि॥

eṣa svabhāvo nārīṇāmanubhūya purā sukham| alpāmapyāpadaṃ prāpya duṣyanti prajahatyapi||

English Meaning

Even this is the nature of women: having formerly tasted happiness (at the hands of their husbands), they, on the accession of an inconsiderable misfortune, take them to task, nay, forsake them utterly.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)