Chapter 86 — Uttara Kanda, Sarga 86

Valmiki Ramayana — Uttara Kanda

Verse 86.8

भूम्यामहं सर्वकालमेकेनांशेन सर्वदा। वसिष्यामि न संदेहः सत्येनैतद्ब्रवीमि वः॥ । योऽयमंशस्तृतीयो मे स्त्रीषु यौवनशालिषु। त्रिरात्रं दर्पपूर्णासु वसिष्ये दर्पघातिनी॥ हन्तारो ब्राह्मणान्ये तु मृषापूर्वमदूषकान्। तांश्चतुर्थेन भागेन संश्रयिष्ये सरुर्षभाः॥

bhūmyāmahaṃ sarvakālamekenāṃśena sarvadā| vasiṣyāmi na saṃdehaḥ satyenaitadbravīmi vaḥ|| | yo'yamaṃśastṛtīyo me strīṣu yauvanaśāliṣu| trirātraṃ darpapūrṇāsu vasiṣye darpaghātinī|| hantāro brāhmaṇānye tu mṛṣāpūrvamadūṣakān| tāṃścaturthena bhāgena saṃśrayiṣye sarurṣabhāḥ||

English Meaning

By my second portion I shall live perpetually on lands as Uşara;* I tell you the truth. By my third portion I shall for three nights every month live in youthful women proud of their youth-So that men might not live with them. And by my fourth portion I shall enter into the persons of those who shall slay innocent Bråhmaņas. *(A spot with saline soil.)

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)