Chapter 21 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 21

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 21.30

क्षिप्रं तव सनाथो मे रामः सौमित्रिणा सह । तोयमल्पमिवादित्यः प्राणानादास्यते शरैः॥

kṣipraṃ tava sanātho me rāmaḥ saumitriṇā saha | toyamalpamivādityaḥ prāṇānādāsyate śaraiḥ||

English Meaning

Soon shall my husband, with the assistance of Lakşmaņa, draw out your life with arrows, like to the sun drying up, by his rays, shallow water.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)