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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.11.1

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 11: Daśaratha’s pleas fail to move Kaikeyī. Kaikeyī insists that Daśaratha honour his promise, his night-long appeals fail to change her demands

In the sequence: Kaikeyī insists on the boons and challenges Daśaratha's reputation for keeping his word

2.11.1

atadarhaṃ mahārājaṃ śayānam atathocitam
yayātim iva puṇyānte devalokāt paricyutam

She looked upon the great king, who did not deserve this, lying in a manner unbefitting him, like Yayāti fallen from the world of the gods at the exhaustion of his merit.

Words: atadarhaṃ — undeserving of this; mahārājaṃ — the great king; śayānam — lying; atathocitam — unaccustomed to such a state; yayātim — Yayāti; iva — like; puṇyānte — at the exhaustion of (his) merit; devalokāt — from the world of the gods; paricyutam — fallen

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.