Chapter 19 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 19

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 19.16

समीक्षमाणां रुदतीमनिन्दितां सुपक्ष्मताम्रायतशुक्ललोचनाम्। अनुव्रतां राममतीव मैथिली प्रलोभयामास वधाय रावणः॥

samīkṣamāṇāṃ rudatīmaninditāṃ supakṣmatāmrāyataśuklalocanām| anuvratāṃ rāmamatīva maithilī pralobhayāmāsa vadhāya rāvaṇaḥ||

English Meaning

Beholding that blameless Maithili, having expansive eyes with beautiful eye lashes, greatly attached to Rāma, and weeping Rāvana tempted her for his own destruction.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)