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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.16.31
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: Rāma accepts immediately → he says that what hurts him is his father's inability to tell him directly: he would willingly give Bharata the Kingdom and everything else.
2.16.31
hitena guruṇā pitrā kṛtajñena nṛpeṇa ca
niyujyamāno viśrabdhaṃ kiṃ na kuryād ahaṃ priyam
“Being commanded, without misgiving, by my well-wisher, my guru, my father, a grateful king—what pleasing thing would I not do?”
Words: hitena — by my well-wisher; guruṇā — by my guru; pitrā — by my father; kṛtajñena — grateful; nṛpeṇa — by the king; ca — and; niyujyamāno — being commanded; viśrabdhaṃ — confidently, without misgiving; kiṃ — what; na — not; kuryād — would do; ahaṃ — I; priyam — pleasing thing
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.