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Valmiki Ramayana 4.2.17

अहो शाखा मृगत्वम् ते व्यक्तम् एव प्लवंगम ।लघु चित्ततया आत्मानम् न स्थापयसि यो मतौ॥

aho śākhā mṛgatvam te vyaktam eva plavaṃgama |laghu cittatayā ātmānam na sthāpayasi yo matau ||

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.