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)