Chapter 48 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 48

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 48.3

गृहे गृहे रुदत्यश्च भर्तारं गृहमागतम्। व्यगर्हयन्त दुःखार्ता वाग्भिस्तोत्रैरिव द्विपान्॥

gṛhe gṛhe rudatyaśca bhartāraṃ gṛhamāgatam| vyagarhayanta duḥkhārtā vāgbhistotrairiva dvipān||

English Meaning

And in every home females afflicted with woe, weeping child their husbands coming home, with the following words as (drivers) spur elephants with hooks.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)