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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.16.32
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.
2.16.32
alīkaṃ mānasaṃ tv ekaṃ hṛdayaṃ dahatīva me
svayaṃ yan nāha māṃ rājā bharatasyābhiṣecanam
“Yet one grief in my mind burns my heart, as it were: that the king did not himself tell me of Bharata's consecration.”
Words: alīkaṃ — painful, distressing (grief); mānasaṃ — mental; tv — yet; ekaṃ — one; hṛdayaṃ — heart; dahatīva — burns, as it were; me — my; svayaṃ — himself; yan — that; nāha — did not tell; māṃ — me; rājā — the king; bharatasyābhiṣecanam — of Bharata's consecration
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.