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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.37.10

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 37: Daśaratha loses sight of Rāma and rejects Kaikeyī. The chariot’s dust disappears, Daśaratha falls, rejects Kaikeyī’s touch and returns to Kausalyā as his sight fails

In the sequence: Kausalyā helps him up and leads him back as he stops along the chariot tracks

2.37.10

atha reṇusamudhvastaṃ tam utthāpya narādhipam
nyavartata tadā devī kausalyā śokakarśitā

Then, having raised up that lord of men who was covered with dust, the queen Kausalyā, wasted with grief, turned back.

Words: atha — then; reṇusamudhvastaṃ — covered over with dust; tam — him; utthāpya — having raised up; narādhipam — the lord of men (king); nyavartata — turned back; tadā — then; devī — the queen; kausalyā — Kausalyā; śokakarśitā — wasted, emaciated with grief

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.