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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.24.15

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 24: Sītā claims a share in the exile. She insists that a wife shares her husband’s fate and chooses forest hardship with Rāma over comfort without him

In the sequence: she says even heaven would not please her without him

2.24.15

saha tvayā viśālākṣa raṃsye paramanandinī
evaṃ varṣasahasrāṇāṃ śataṃ vāhaṃ tvayā saha

With you, O large-eyed one, I shall delight, supremely joyful; thus would I live with you even a hundred thousand years.

Words: saha tvayā — with you; viśālākṣa — O large-eyed one; raṃsye — I shall delight; paramanandinī — supremely joyful; evaṃ — thus; varṣasahasrāṇāṃ — of thousands of years; śataṃ — a hundred; vāhaṃ — even I; tvayā saha — with you

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.