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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.24.6

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 offers to walk ahead and clear thorns from his path, saying that life beside him is better than palace comforts

2.24.6

īrṣyā roṣau bahiṣkṛtya bhuktaśeṣam ivodakam
naya māṃ vīra viśrabdhaḥ pāpaṃ mayi na vidyate

Casting out jealousy and anger like water left over after drinking, lead me, O hero, with confidence; there is no fault in me.

Words: īrṣyā roṣau — jealousy and anger; bahiṣkṛtya — having cast out; bhuktaśeṣam — the remnant of a meal; ivodakam — like water; naya māṃ — lead me; vīra — O hero; viśrabdhaḥ — confident, trusting; pāpaṃ — sin, fault; mayi — in me; na vidyate — there is not

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.