“English translation:
You will find no rest for the long years of Eternity
For you killed a bird in love and unsuspecting”

— Vālmīki, Ramayana

He expressed anguish in a poetic form when he found the hunter killing the male dove with his arrow. <br class="br">Source: Ramayana translated by William Buck in: Ramayana https://books.google.co.in/books?id=vvuIp2kqIkMC&pg=PA7, Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1 January 2000, p. 7.

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Legendary Indian poet, author of the Ramayana

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