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)