Chapter 42 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 42

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 42.26

पुत्रद्वयविहीनं च स्नुषया च विवर्जितम्। अपश्यद् भवनं राजा नष्टचन्द्रमिवाम्बरम्॥

putradvayavihīnaṃ ca snuṣayā ca vivarjitam| apaśyad bhavanaṃ rājā naṣṭacandramivāmbaram||

English Meaning

The king surveyed the mansion deprived of his two sons as well as his daughter-in-law, like to the welkin deprived of the Moon.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)