Chapter 73 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 73

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 73.3

दुःखे मे दुःखमकरोत्रणे क्षारमिवाददाः। राजानं प्रेतभावस्थं कृत्वा रामं च तापसम्॥

duḥkhe me duḥkhamakarotraṇe kṣāramivādadāḥ| rājānaṃ pretabhāvasthaṃ kṛtvā rāmaṃ ca tāpasam||

English Meaning

You, like one throwing alkali on a sore, have, by bringing about the death of the king and making Rāma an ascetic, heaped grief on grief.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)