Chapter 28 — Sundara Kanda, Sarga 28

Valmiki Ramayana — Sundara Kanda

Verse 28.8

हा राम हा लक्ष्मण हा सुमित्रे हा राममातः सह मे जनन्यः। मृगरूपधारी एषा विपद्याम्यहमल्पभाग्या महार्णवे नौरिव मूढवाता॥

hā rāma hā lakṣmaṇa hā sumitre hā rāmamātaḥ saha me jananyaḥ| mṛgarūpadhārī eṣā vipadyāmyahamalpabhāgyā mahārṇave nauriva mūḍhavātā||

English Meaning

O Rama! O Laksmana! O Sumitra! O Rama's mother! O my mothers! I am worsted in this ocean of grief, like to a bark, driven hither and thither by the blast, in the midst of an ocean.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)