Chapter 64 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 64

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 64.21

सप्तधा तु भवेन्मूर्धा मुनौ तपसि तिष्ठति। ज्ञानाद् विसृजतः शस्त्रं तादृशे ब्रह्मवादिनि॥

saptadhā tu bhavenmūrdhā munau tapasi tiṣṭhati| jñānād visṛjataḥ śastraṃ tādṛśe brahmavādini||

English Meaning

Your head would have been severed in seven, if you had discharged the weapon knowingly at such an ascetic staying in austerities and versed in the Vedas.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)