Chapter 48 — Kishkindha Kanda, Sarga 48

Valmiki Ramayana — Kishkindha Kanda

Verse 48.8

तस्य ते काननान्तांस्तु गिरीणां कन्दराणि च ॥ प्रभवानि नदीनां च विचिन्वन्ति समाहिताः। तत्र चापि महात्मानो नापश्यञ्जनकात्मजाम्॥ हर्तारं रावणं वापि सुग्रीवप्रियकारिणः।

tasya te kānanāntāṃstu girīṇāṃ kandarāṇi ca || prabhavāni nadīnāṃ ca vicinvanti samāhitāḥ| tatra cāpi mahātmāno nāpaśyañjanakātmajām|| hartāraṃ rāvaṇaṃ vāpi sugrīvapriyakāriṇaḥ|

English Meaning

They carefully search the skirts of its woods, mountain-caves, and the sources of its streams. And those high-souled ones, devoted to the good of Sugrīva, did not find Janaka's daughter, or her ravisher, Rāvaņa.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)