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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.67.27

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 67: Story of Kabandha. A ṛṣi’s curse and Indra’s thunderbolt produced his deformed body, he asks for cremation to restore his discernment and name a helpful ally

In the sequence: Kabandha says he cannot yet identify Sītā's whereabouts: the curse has deprived him of his former discernment

3.67.27

vijñānaṃ hi mahad bhraṣṭaṃ śāpadoṣeṇa rāghava
svakṛtena mayā prāptaṃ rūpaṃ lokavigarhitam

“For my great faculty of discernment has been lost through the fault of the curse, O Rāghava; through my own doing I have come by a form abhorred by the world.

Words: vijñānaṃ — discernment, knowledge; hi — for; mahad — great; bhraṣṭaṃ — lost, fallen away; śāpadoṣeṇa — through the fault of the curse; rāghava — O Rāghava; svakṛtena — through my own doing; mayā — by me; prāptaṃ — obtained, come by; rūpaṃ — form; lokavigarhitam — abhorred by the world

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.