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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.37.26

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: on her couch he calls for Rāma and asks her to touch him because he can no longer see her clearly → she sits beside him and weeps.

2.37.26

sukhitā bata taṃ kālaṃ jīviṣyanti narottamāḥ
pariṣvajanto ye rāmaṃ drakṣyanti punar āgatam

Happy indeed will those best of men be, who shall live to that time when, embracing Rāma, they behold him come again.

Words: sukhitā — happy; bata — indeed, alas; taṃ kālaṃ — to that time; jīviṣyanti — will live; narottamāḥ — the best of men; pariṣvajanto — embracing; ye — who; rāmaṃ — Rāma; drakṣyanti — will see; punar — again; āgatam — come, returned

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.