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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.16.11

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 16: Rāma accepts fourteen years of exile. Kaikeyī explains the boons, Rāma agrees, asks for Bharata’s return and leaves to speak to Kausalyā & Sītā

In the sequence: alarmed by this unfamiliar silence, Rāma asks whether he has offended him, whether he is ill, or whether something has happened to the family

2.16.11

kaccin mayā nāparādham ajñānād yena me pitā
kupitas tan mamācakṣva tvaṃ caivainaṃ prasādaya

“I hope I have not, in ignorance, committed some offence for which my father is angry; tell me of it, and do you appease him.”

Words: kaccin — surely (not), I hope; mayā — by me; nāparādham — no offence; ajñānād — out of ignorance; yena — by which; me — my; pitā — father; kupitas — is angered; tan — that; mamācakṣva — tell me; tvaṃ — you; caivainaṃ — and him; prasādaya — appease, propitiate

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.