Chapter 32 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 32

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 32.8

यो हि मामुद्यतस्त्रातुं सोऽपि त्वं विनिपातितः।।१० सा श्वश्रूर्मम कौसल्या त्वया पुत्रेण राघव। वत्सला ते यथा धेनुर्विवत्सा वत्सला कृता ॥

yo hi māmudyatastrātuṃ so'pi tvaṃ vinipātitaḥ||10 sā śvaśrūrmama kausalyā tvayā putreṇa rāghava| vatsalā te yathā dhenurvivatsā vatsalā kṛtā ||

English Meaning

And you, who was engaged in delivering me, have yourself fallen! And my mother-in-law, Kausalyā, attached (to you), through the death of you, her son, at the hands of Raksasas, has been reduced to the condition of a cow that has been deprived of her calf.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)