Chapter 33 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 33

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 33.40

कोपं कथं नाम गुणप्रकृष्टः कुमार कुर्यादपकृष्टसत्त्वे। कस्त्वद्विधः कोपवशं हि गच्छेत् सत्त्वावरुद्धस्तपसः प्रसूतिः॥

kopaṃ kathaṃ nāma guṇaprakṛṣṭaḥ kumāra kuryādapakṛṣṭasattve| kastvadvidhaḥ kopavaśaṃ hi gacchet sattvāvaruddhastapasaḥ prasūtiḥ||

English Meaning

O prince, who, accomplished with excellent virtues, gets enraged with one of inferior merits? O prince, who, like you, an offspring of asceticism, is worked up with ire against the virtue of forgiveness?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)