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Valmiki Ramayana 2.97.16

कथं नु पुत्रा: पितरं हन्यु: कस्याञ्चिदापदि।भ्राता वा भ्रातरं हन्यात् सौमित्रे प्राणमात्मन:॥

kathaṃ nu putrā: pitaraṃ hanyu: kasyāñcidāpadi |bhrātā vā bhrātaraṃ hanyāt saumitre prāṇamātmana: ||

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.