Chapter 57 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 57

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 57.21

स तूष्णीमेव तच्छ्रुत्वा राजा विद्रुतमानसः। मूर्छितो न्यपतद् भूमौ रामशोकाभिपीडितः॥

sa tūṣṇīmeva tacchrutvā rājā vidrutamānasaḥ| mūrchito nyapatad bhūmau rāmaśokābhipīḍitaḥ||

English Meaning

Hearing them silently, the monarch with his mind exceedingly wrought, dropped down to the ground in a swoon, afflicted with grief for Rāma.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)