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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.30.10

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 30: The walk to Daśaratha’s palace. Seeing Rāma, Sītā & Lakṣmaṇa without royal honours, citizens propose leaving Ayodhyā to follow them

In the sequence: they worry about Sītā, now publicly visible on the street and soon to face the weather and hardships of the forest

2.30.10

adya nūnaṃ daśarathaḥ sattvam āviśya bhāṣate
na hi rājā priyaṃ putraṃ vivāsayitum arhati

Surely today Daśaratha speaks as though some spirit had entered him; for a king ought not to banish his beloved son.

Words: adya — today; nūnaṃ — surely; daśarathaḥ — Daśaratha; sattvam — a spirit, demon, being; āviśya — having entered into; bhāṣate — speaks; na hi — for not; rājā — a king; priyaṃ putraṃ — his beloved son; vivāsayitum — to banish, exile; arhati — ought

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.