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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.11.14

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: she remains unmoved and continues to demand the exile → he loses consciousness again.

2.11.14

viśuddhabhāvasya hi duṣṭabhāvā tāmrekṣaṇasyāśrukalasya rājñaḥ
śrutvā vicitraṃ karuṇaṃ vilāpaṃ bhartur nṛśaṃsā na cakāra vākyam

But the evil-natured woman, hearing the strange and piteous lament of the pure-hearted king — his eyes red, his voice choked with tears — cruel as she was, did not heed her husband's plea.

Words: viśuddhabhāvasya — of (the king) of pure nature; hi — indeed; duṣṭabhāvā — the evil-natured (woman); tāmrekṣaṇasyāśrukalasya — of (him) with red eyes and tear-choked (voice); rājñaḥ — of the king; śrutvā — having heard; vicitraṃ — strange, manifold; karuṇaṃ — piteous; vilāpaṃ — lament; bhartur — of (her) husband; nṛśaṃsā — the cruel (woman); na — not; cakāra — did (heed); vākyam — the word, plea

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.