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)