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Quotation from The Ramayana by Valmiki
“Dream not that wealth and power can sway My heart from duty’s path to stray. Linked like the Day-God and his shine, I am my lord’s and he is mine.”
The Ramayana, Book V, Canto XXI (Sítá's Scorn), trans. Ralph T. H. Griffith
In the Asoka grove, with Hanuman hidden in a tree above, Sita turns her back on Ravan's wooing.
Citation: "Dream not that wealth and power can sway My heart from duty’s path to stray. Linked like the Day-God and his shine, I am my lord’s and he is mine." — Valmiki, The Ramayana, Book V, Canto XXI (Sítá's Scorn), trans. Ralph T. H. Griffith. (id ramayana-q4)
Portrait: Meeting of Rama and Parashurama, from the Mewar Ramayana, Manohar of Mewar, Public domain.
