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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.19.10

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 19: Daśaratha’s resistance: The army offered in Rāma’s place. Daśaratha resists sending the young Rāma, offers himself and his army instead and renews his refusal on hearing of Rāvaṇa’s power

In the sequence: he says that sixty thousand years have passed since his birth and recalls how difficult it was to obtain this especially beloved son

1.19.10

ṣaṣṭir varṣasahasrāṇi jātasya mama kauśikaḥ
duḥkhenotpāditaś cāyaṃ na rāmaṃ netum arhasi

Sixty thousand years have passed since my birth, O Kauśika; and this (son) was begotten with (great) difficulty — you should not take Rāma away.

Words: ṣaṣṭir — sixty; varṣasahasrāṇi — thousands of years; jātasya — of (me) born; mama — my, of me; kauśikaḥ — O Kauśika; duḥkhenotpāditaś — begotten with difficulty; cāyaṃ — and this one; na — not; rāmaṃ — Rāma; netum — to take away; arhasi — you should

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. 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.