Chapter 42 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 42

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 42.20

इत्येवं विलपन् राजा जनौघेनाभिसंवृतः। अपस्नात इवारिष्टं प्रविवेश गृहोत्तमम्॥

ityevaṃ vilapan rājā janaughenābhisaṃvṛtaḥ| apasnāta ivāriṣṭaṃ praviveśa gṛhottamam||

English Meaning

Thus lamenting, the king surrounded by the multitude, like one that had performed his bath after death, entered that best of cities filled with people enfeebled and smitten with grief, with its streets thinned of men and its stalls closed.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)