Chapter 81 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 81

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 81.7

यो हि नः सुमहान् नाथः सोऽपि प्रव्राजितो वने। अनया धर्ममुत्सृज्य मात्रा मे राघवः स्वयम्।७।।

yo hi naḥ sumahān nāthaḥ so'pi pravrājito vane| anayā dharmamutsṛjya mātrā me rāghavaḥ svayam|7||

English Meaning

And he who is our mighty master has been banished into the woods by this mother of mine, who had (in doing so) renounced virtue.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)