Chapter 30 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 30

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 30.16

तं तु दृष्ट्वा तथाभूतं प्राह देवः पितामहः। शतक्रतो किमु पुरा करोति स्म सुदुष्कृतम्॥

taṃ tu dṛṣṭvā tathābhūtaṃ prāha devaḥ pitāmahaḥ| śatakrato kimu purā karoti sma suduṣkṛtam||

English Meaning

Beholding him in that plight the grand-father of the deities said:-O performer of hundred sacrifices, why did you formerly perpetrate that mighty iniquity?

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)