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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.37.28
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.
2.37.28
taṃ rāmam evānuvicintayantaṃ samīkṣya devī śayane narendram
upopaviśyādhikam ārtarūpā viniḥśvasantī vilalāpa kṛcchraṃ
Seeing that lord of men brooding on nothing but Rāma, the queen, herself the very image of distress, sat down close beside him on the couch and, sighing, lamented piteously.
Words: taṃ — that; rāmam — Rāma; evānuvicintayantaṃ — brooding only on; samīkṣya — having beheld; devī — the queen; śayane — on the couch; narendram — the lord of men; upopaviśyādhikam — having sat down very close; ārtarūpā — of afflicted appearance; viniḥśvasantī — sighing; vilalāpa — lamented; kṛcchraṃ — piteously, painfully
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.