Chapter 71 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 71

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 71.31

बभूव पश्यन्मनसोऽप्रियाणि यान्यन्यदा नास्य पुरे बभूवुः। अवाक्शिरा दीनमना न हृष्टः पितुर्महात्मा प्रविवेश वेश्म ॥

babhūva paśyanmanaso'priyāṇi yānyanyadā nāsya pure babhūvuḥ| avākśirā dīnamanā na hṛṣṭaḥ piturmahātmā praviveśa veśma ||

English Meaning

And witnessing many unpleasant things which he had never seen during the life of the monarch, that high-souled one entered the mansion of his father, bending his head, depressed in spirits, and with his mind extremely aggrieved.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)