Chapter 11 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 11

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 11.33

यस्य सत्त्वस्य या योनिस्तस्यां तत् परिमार्गते। न शक्यं प्रमदा नष्टा मृगीषु परिमार्गितुम्॥

yasya sattvasya yā yonistasyāṃ tat parimārgate| na śakyaṃ pramadā naṣṭā mṛgīṣu parimārgitum||

English Meaning

People search for creatures among the species to which they happen to belong: none scarchets for a lost lady among female deer.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)