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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.53.3

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 53: Story of Viśvāmitra: Śabalā resists seizure. The King seizes Śabalā, she returns to Vasiṣṭha and, with his permission, produces armies to resist the royal forces

In the sequence: distressed, she wonders whether Vasiṣṭha has abandoned her and what wrong she has done

1.53.3

parityaktā vasiṣṭhena kim ahaṃ sumahātmanā
yāhaṃ rājabhṛtair dīnā hriyeyaṃ bhṛśaduḥkhitā

'Have I then been abandoned by the exceedingly great-souled Vasiṣṭha, that I, wretched and sorely afflicted, should be carried off by the king's servants?'

Words: parityaktā — abandoned; vasiṣṭhena — by Vasiṣṭha; kim — is it that? (question); ahaṃ — I; sumahātmanā — by the exceedingly great-souled one; yāhaṃ — I who; rājabhṛtair — by the king's servants; dīnā — wretched, miserable; hriyeyaṃ — should be carried off; bhṛśaduḥkhitā — sorely afflicted

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.