Chapter 74 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 74

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 74.28

नाहं पापसंकल्पे पापे पापं त्वया कृतम्। शक्तो धारयितुं पौरैर श्रुकण्ठैर्निरीक्षितः॥

nāhaṃ pāpasaṃkalpe pāpe pāpaṃ tvayā kṛtam| śakto dhārayituṃ pauraira śrukaṇṭhairnirīkṣitaḥ||

English Meaning

O you that have delivered yourself over to iniquity, I, looked at by the citizens with their throats oppressed with the vapour grief, cannot bear this (burden of) sin heaped on my by you.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)