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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.16.37
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 asks that Bharata be summoned and Daśaratha comforted → Kaikeyī presses him to leave quickly, saying the King will neither eat nor bathe until he has gone → Daśaratha collapses again, and Rāma helps him up
2.16.37
daṇḍakāraṇyam eṣo 'ham ito gacchāmi satvaraḥ
avicārya pitur vākyaṃ samāvastuṃ caturdaśa
“Here I go hence in haste to the Daṇḍaka forest, to dwell there fourteen years, without questioning my father's word.”
Words: daṇḍakāraṇyam — to the Daṇḍaka forest; eṣo — here; 'ham — I; ito — from here; gacchāmi — I go; satvaraḥ — in haste; avicārya — without questioning, unhesitatingly; pitur — my father's; vākyaṃ — word; samāvastuṃ — to dwell (there); caturdaśa — fourteen
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.