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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.1.8

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 1: Daśaratha proposes Rāma as heir. With Bharata & Śatrughna in Kekaya, Daśaratha weighs Rāma’s fitness to rule and summons an assembly

In the sequence: the brothers are warmly received there, but continue to think of their father; Daśaratha also misses them

2.1.8

rājāpi tau mahātejāḥ sasmāra proṣitau sutau
ubhau bharataśatrughnau mahendravaruṇopamau

The king too, of great splendour, remembered his two absent sons, both Bharata and Śatrughna, who were like great Indra and Varuṇa.

Words: rājāpi — the king too; tau — those two; mahātejāḥ — of great splendour; sasmāra — remembered; proṣitau — the two who were away, absent; sutau — the two sons; ubhau — both; bharataśatrughnau — Bharata and Śatrughna; mahendravaruṇopamau — like great Indra and Varuṇa

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.