Chapter 25 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 25

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 25.41

तवेष्टा ननु चैवेमा भार्याश्चन्द्रनिभाननाः। इदानीं नेक्षसे कस्मात सुग्रीवं प्लवगेश्वर ॥

taveṣṭā nanu caivemā bhāryāścandranibhānanāḥ| idānīṃ nekṣase kasmāta sugrīvaṃ plavageśvara ||

English Meaning

Those your wives, having moon-like countenances, have always your welfare in view. Why did you not, O best of monkeys, cast your looks towards them and Sugrīva?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)