Chapter 20 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 20

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 20.10

क्षीयमाणं दैवहतं क्षुत्पिपासाजरादिभिः। विषादशोकसंमूढं लोकं त्वं क्षपयस्व मा॥

kṣīyamāṇaṃ daivahataṃ kṣutpipāsājarādibhiḥ| viṣādaśokasaṃmūḍhaṃ lokaṃ tvaṃ kṣapayasva mā||

English Meaning

Do not you enfeeble those beings who are already enfeebled and smitten by Divinity with hunger, thirst, old age etc. and who are overwhelmed with sorrow, and grief.

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)