Chapter 52 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 52

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 52.50

चतुर्दश हि वर्षाणि सहितस्य त्वया वने। क्षणभूतानि यास्यन्ति शतसंख्यानि चान्यथा॥

caturdaśa hi varṣāṇi sahitasya tvayā vane| kṣaṇabhūtāni yāsyanti śatasaṃkhyāni cānyathā||

English Meaning

Remaining with you in the forest the fourteen years will pass away dwindled into a moment, but without you, they shall the proportions of an hundred years. assume

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)