Chapter 40 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 40

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 40.26

अथ राजा वृतः स्त्रीभिर्दीनाभिर्दीनचेतनः। निर्जगाम प्रियं पुत्रं द्रक्ष्यामीति ब्रुवन् गृहात्॥

atha rājā vṛtaḥ strībhirdīnābhirdīnacetanaḥ| nirjagāma priyaṃ putraṃ drakṣyāmīti bruvan gṛhāt||

English Meaning

Then the king, his sense overcome by grief, surrounded by his distressed wives, went out of his house, saying, “I will behold my dear son.”

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)