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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.16.5

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

2.16.5

indriyair aprahṛṣṭais taṃ śokasaṃtāpakarśitam
niḥśvasantaṃ mahārājaṃ vyathitākulacetasaṃ

Him, with joyless senses, wasted by grief and anguish, the great king sighing, his mind agitated and distraught—

Words: indriyair — with his senses; aprahṛṣṭais — joyless, cheerless; taṃ — him; śokasaṃtāpakarśitam — wasted by grief and burning sorrow; niḥśvasantaṃ — sighing; mahārājaṃ — the great king; vyathitākulacetasaṃ — his mind afflicted and agitated

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.