Chapter 43 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 43

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 43.6

वने त्वदृष्टदुःखानां कैकेय्यनुमते त्वया। त्यक्तानां वनवासाय कान्यावस्था भविष्यति।७।।

vane tvadṛṣṭaduḥkhānāṃ kaikeyyanumate tvayā| tyaktānāṃ vanavāsāya kānyāvasthā bhaviṣyati|7||

English Meaning

Despatched by you to the woods at the command of Kaikeyi, to what a plight will they, not inured to the privations of a forest-life, be reduced!

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)