Chapter 18 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 18

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 18.25

सर्वथा धर्म इत्येव द्रष्टव्यस्तव निग्रहः। वयस्थस्योपकर्तव्यं धर्ममेवानुपश्यता ॥

sarvathā dharma ityeva draṣṭavyastava nigrahaḥ| vayasthasyopakartavyaṃ dharmamevānupaśyatā ||

English Meaning

Your discomfiture is quite of a piece with the sanctions of morality-and to assist friends in one of the codes of religion.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)