Chapter 60 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 60

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 60.10

तद्गतं हृदयं यस्यास्तदधीनं च जीवितम्। अयोध्या हि भवेदस्या रामहीना तथा वनम्॥

tadgataṃ hṛdayaṃ yasyāstadadhīnaṃ ca jīvitam| ayodhyā hi bhavedasyā rāmahīnā tathā vanam||

English Meaning

Ayodhyā without Rāma would have seemed a wilderness to her whose heart is fixed on him and whose very life depends upon him.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)