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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.16.44

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

2.16.44

rāmo 'py utthāpya rājānaṃ kaikeyyābhipracoditaḥ
kaśayevāhato vājī vanaṃ gantuṃ kṛtatvaraḥ

Rāma too, raising up the king and urged on by Kaikeyī, made haste to go to the forest, like a horse struck by the whip.

Words: rāmo — Rāma; 'py — too; utthāpya — having raised up; rājānaṃ — the king; kaikeyyābhipracoditaḥ — urged on by Kaikeyī; kaśayevāhato — struck as if by a whip; vājī — a horse; vanaṃ — to the forest; gantuṃ — to go; kṛtatvaraḥ — making haste

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.