Chapter 20 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 20

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 20.13

अस्थाने वालिनं हत्वा युध्यमानं परेण च। स संतप्यति काकुत्स्थः कृत्वा कर्म सुगर्हितम्।।१५।

asthāne vālinaṃ hatvā yudhyamānaṃ pareṇa ca| sa saṃtapyati kākutsthaḥ kṛtvā karma sugarhitam||15|

English Meaning

Destroying Vāli unseasonably, while engaged in conflict with another person, and perpetrating such an iniquitous deed Kākutstha does never relent.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)