Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa 19: Rāma attributes the reversal to fate · 2.19.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.19.1

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 19: Rāma attributes the reversal to fate. He cancels the abhiṣeka preparations and asks Lakṣmaṇa to accept Kaikeyī’s change without anger

In the sequence: Rāma asks Lakṣmaṇa to stop the abhiṣeka preparations

2.19.1

atha taṃ vyathayā dīnaṃ saviśeṣam amarṣitam
śvasantam iva nāgendraṃ roṣavisphāritekṣaṇam

Then to him—wretched with distress, exceedingly indignant, hissing like a lordly serpent, his eyes flung wide with rage—

Words: atha — then; taṃ — him; vyathayā — with distress, agitation; dīnaṃ — wretched, dejected; saviśeṣam — especially, exceedingly; amarṣitam — indignant, enraged; śvasantam — hissing, breathing hard; iva — like; nāgendraṃ — a lordly serpent; roṣavisphāritekṣaṇam — his eyes flung wide with rage

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.