Chapter 82 — Yuddha Kanda, Sarga 82

Valmiki Ramayana — Yuddha Kanda

Verse 82.3

कस्माद्विषण्णवदना विद्रवध्वं प्लवंगमाः। त्यक्तयुद्धसमुत्साहाः शूरत्वं क्व नु वो गतम्॥

kasmādviṣaṇṇavadanā vidravadhvaṃ plavaṃgamāḥ| tyaktayuddhasamutsāhāḥ śūratvaṃ kva nu vo gatam||

English Meaning

O monkeys, why do you look so melancholy and why are you flying away? Why have you renounced your earnest desire for fight? And where is your heroism gone?

— M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)