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)