Chapter 68 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 68

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 68.8

मा चास्मै प्रोषितं रामं मा चास्मै पितरं मृतम्। भवन्तः शंसिषुर्गत्वा राघवाणामितः क्षयम्॥

mā cāsmai proṣitaṃ rāmaṃ mā cāsmai pitaraṃ mṛtam| bhavantaḥ śaṃsiṣurgatvā rāghavāṇāmitaḥ kṣayam||

English Meaning

But you must on no account communicate to him the exile of Rāma, or the demise of the monarch, or the destruction that has befallen the Raghu race through this occasion.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)