Chapter 64 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 64

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 64.22

अज्ञानाद्धि कृतं यस्मादिदं ते तेन जीवसे। अपि ह्यकुशलं न स्याद् राघवाणां कुतोभवान् ॥

ajñānāddhi kṛtaṃ yasmādidaṃ te tena jīvase| api hyakuśalaṃ na syād rāghavāṇāṃ kutobhavān ||

English Meaning

It is because you have done this through ignorance that you (still) live, else the race itself of the Rāghavas should be not, and where are you?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)