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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.16.15

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

2.16.15

yatomūlaṃ naraḥ paśyet prādurbhāvam ihātmanaḥ
kathaṃ tasmin na varteta pratyakṣe sati daivate

“A man who sees in him the very source of his own coming into being—how could he fail to serve that visible deity present before him?”

Words: yatomūlaṃ — having its root from whom, as the source; naraḥ — a man; paśyet — would see; prādurbhāvam — coming into being, origin; ihātmanaḥ — here of himself; kathaṃ — how; tasmin — toward him; na — not; varteta — would act, conduct himself; pratyakṣe — visible, present; sati — being; daivate — the deity

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.