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)