Chapter 24 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 24

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 24.16

पापस्य कर्तास्मि विगर्हितस्य क्षुद्रस्य लोकापकृतस्य लोके। शोको महान् मामभिवर्ततेऽयं वृष्टेर्यथा निम्नमिवाम्बुवेगः॥

pāpasya kartāsmi vigarhitasya kṣudrasya lokāpakṛtasya loke| śoko mahān māmabhivartate'yaṃ vṛṣṭeryathā nimnamivāmbuvegaḥ||

English Meaning

I am the perpetrator of a vile and disgraceful sin, blamed of all in this world. And like to a current of rain going downwards, this mighty grief has overcome me.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)