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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.20.5

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 20: Lakṣmaṇa opposes fate with effort. He offers to overcome every obstacle by force, Rāma wipes away his tears but remains bound to the promise

In the sequence: he rejects Rāma's explanation: he sees deliberate manipulation disguised as duty

2.20.5

agrākṣṇā vīkṣamāṇas tu tiryag bhrātaram abravīt
asthāne saṃbhramo yasya jāto vai sumahān ayam

—looking askance at his brother with the corner of his eye, he said: "This exceedingly great agitation of yours has arisen out of season.

Words: agrākṣṇā — with the corner of the eye; vīkṣamāṇas — gazing, looking; tu — but; tiryag — askance, sideways; bhrātaram — to his brother; abravīt — said; asthāne — out of place, unseasonably; saṃbhramo — agitation, flurry; yasya — whose, of which; jāto — arisen; vai — indeed; sumahān — very great; ayam — this

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.