Chapter 28 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 28

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 28.12

अनन्यदेवत्वमियं क्षमा च भूमौ च शय्या नियमश्च धर्मे। पतिव्रतात्वं विफलं ममेदं कृतं कृतघ्नेष्विव मानुषाणाम्॥

ananyadevatvamiyaṃ kṣamā ca bhūmau ca śayyā niyamaśca dharme| pativratātvaṃ viphalaṃ mamedaṃ kṛtaṃ kṛtaghneṣviva mānuṣāṇām||

English Meaning

Alas! this my devotedness to my husband, my forgiveness, my lying down on the bare earth, my observance of religious vows, my wife-like virtues, are lost like to service done for an ungrateful wight.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)