Chapter 20 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 20

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 20.8

हृदयं सुस्थितं मह्यं दृष्ट्वा निपतितं भुवि। यन्न शोकाभिसंतप्तं स्फुटतेऽद्य सहस्रधा ॥

hṛdayaṃ susthitaṃ mahyaṃ dṛṣṭvā nipatitaṃ bhuvi| yanna śokābhisaṃtaptaṃ sphuṭate'dya sahasradhā ||

English Meaning

Forsooth, my heart is uncommon hard, since beholding you on the ground it has not been sundered into thousand pieces being overwhelmed with grief.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)