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Valmiki Ramayana 2.53.8

अनाथः चैव वृद्धः च मया चैव विनाकृतः ।किम् करिष्यति काम आत्मा कैकेय्या वशम् आगतः॥

anāthaḥ caiva vṛddhaḥ ca mayā caiva vinākṛtaḥ |kim kariṣyati kāma ātmā kaikeyyā vaśam āgataḥ ||

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Kanda.sarga.shloka as numbered in DharmicData (source: svenkatreddy/Ramayana_Book). Numbers can differ from the Gita Press edition by a few verses.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Contains information from DharmicData (github.com/bhavykhatri/DharmicData), made available under the ODbL v1.0. Sanskrit text public domain; dataset ODbL v1.0.

Valmiki Ramayana 2.53.8 · Vidya