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)