Chapter 61 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 61

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 61.3

कथं नरवर श्रेष्ठ पुत्रौ तौ सह सीतया। दुःखितौ सुखसंवृद्धौ वने दुःखं सहिष्यतः॥

kathaṃ naravara śreṣṭha putrau tau saha sītayā| duḥkhitau sukhasaṃvṛddhau vane duḥkhaṃ sahiṣyataḥ||

English Meaning

Why then have you forsaken those foremost of men along with Sītā? Brought up in happiness, and now brought to misery, how can they bear it?

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)