Chapter 73 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 73

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 73.4

अप्राप्तयौवनं बालं पञ्चवर्षसहस्रकम्। अकाले कालमापन्नं मम दुःखाय पुत्रक॥ अल्पैरहोभिनिधनं गमिष्यामि न संशयः। अहं च जननी चैव तव शोकेन पुत्रक॥

aprāptayauvanaṃ bālaṃ pañcavarṣasahasrakam| akāle kālamāpannaṃ mama duḥkhāya putraka|| alpairahobhinidhanaṃ gamiṣyāmi na saṃśayaḥ| ahaṃ ca jananī caiva tava śokena putraka||

English Meaning

My son, you have not as yet completed fourteen years. To my misery you have met with untimely death. Forsooth, for your grief, O my son, myself and your mother shall soon be snatched away by death.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)