Chapter 66 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 66

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 66.21

नारोचयस्ते सुहृदः समागताः। इतीव तस्मिशयने न्यवेशयन् विचिन्त्य राजानमचिन्त्यदर्शनम्॥

nārocayaste suhṛdaḥ samāgatāḥ| itīva tasmiśayane nyaveśayan vicintya rājānamacintyadarśanam||

English Meaning

The idea of consuming the king's corpse in the absence of his son did not recommended itself to the assembled. adherents (of the departed). Thinking this, they in that way laid the king endowed with an inconceivably dignified presence.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)