Chapter 8 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 8

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 8.3

नारायण न जानीषे क्षात्रधर्म पुरातनम्। अयुद्धमनसो भीतानस्मान्हंसि यथेतरः॥

nārāyaṇa na jānīṣe kṣātradharma purātanam| ayuddhamanaso bhītānasmānhaṃsi yathetaraḥ||

English Meaning

O Nārāyaṇa, you are ignorant of the timehonoured morality of Kşatriyas; and therefore like a base wight you slay us, desisting from fight and exercised with fear.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)