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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.37.15

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: seeing the hoofprints but no longer his son, he imagines Rāma sleeping on the ground beneath a tree

2.37.15

sa nūnaṃ kva cid evādya vṛkṣamūlam upāśritaḥ
kāṣṭhaṃ vā yadi vāśmānam upadhāya śayiṣyate

Surely today, somewhere or other, taking shelter at the foot of a tree, laying his head on a log or a stone, he will lie down to sleep.

Words: sa — he; nūnaṃ — surely; kva cid — somewhere; evādya — today indeed; vṛkṣamūlam — the foot of a tree; upāśritaḥ — having resorted to, taken shelter at; kāṣṭhaṃ — a log, piece of wood; vā — or; yadi vāśmānam — or else a stone; upadhāya — having placed under (his head); śayiṣyate — will lie down, sleep

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.