Chapter 19 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 19

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 19.11

सुकुमारी सुजाताङ्गी रत्नगर्भगृहोचिताम्। तप्यमानामिवोष्णेन मृणालीमचिरोद्धृताम्॥

sukumārī sujātāṅgī ratnagarbhagṛhocitām| tapyamānāmivoṣṇena mṛṇālīmaciroddhṛtām||

English Meaning

That one of graceful limbs, tender and worthy of living in a jewelled abode, being stricken with grief, seemed like a dried lotus-stalk just extracted from its bed.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)