Chapter 15 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 15

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 15.24

रामोपरोधव्यथितां रक्षोगणनिपीडिताम्। अबलां मृगशावाक्षी वीक्षमाणां ततस्ततः॥

rāmoparodhavyathitāṃ rakṣogaṇanipīḍitām| abalāṃ mṛgaśāvākṣī vīkṣamāṇāṃ tatastataḥ||

English Meaning

That innocent one was greatly distressed for not being able to attend upon Rāma and she having the eyes of a young hind, being oppressed by the Rākṣasis was casting her looks hither and thither.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)