Chapter 65 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 65

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 65.16

ततः प्रचुकुशुर्दीनाः सस्वरं ता वराङ्गनाः। करेणेव इवारण्ये स्थानप्रच्युतयूथपाः॥

tataḥ pracukuśurdīnāḥ sasvaraṃ tā varāṅganāḥ| kareṇeva ivāraṇye sthānapracyutayūthapāḥ||

English Meaning

Thereupon exceedingly distressed, those paragons of their sex, like she-elephants in the forest deprived of their leader of the herd, broke out into wailing.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)