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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.108.6

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 108: The ṛṣis leave Citrakūṭa. Rākṣasas assault the tapasvins and disrupt their rites, the community departs for another hermitage despite Rāma’s appeal to remain

In the sequence: he asks their senior ṛṣi whether he, Lakṣmaṇa, or Sītā has behaved improperly

2.108.6

pramādāc caritaṃ kaccit kiṃ cin nāvarajasya me
lakṣmaṇasyarṣibhir dṛṣṭaṃ nānurūpam ivātmanaḥ

Nothing, I hope, has been done carelessly by my younger brother Lakṣmaṇa that the sages have seen to be unbecoming of him?

Words: pramādāc — through carelessness; caritaṃ — done, an act; kaccit — perhaps; kiṃ cin — anything; nāvarajasya — surely nothing of the younger-born's; me — my; lakṣmaṇasyarṣibhir — of Lakṣmaṇa, by the sages; dṛṣṭaṃ — seen; nānurūpam — as unbefitting; ivātmanaḥ — as it were, of himself

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.