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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.45.13

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 45: Lakṣmaṇa keeps watch beside the Gaṅgā. Guha offers to guard the camp, Lakṣmaṇa refuses a bed and stays awake fearing the deaths of their grieving parents

In the sequence: he fears Daśaratha will die without seeing Rāma installed

2.45.13

vinadya sumahānādaṃ śrameṇoparatāḥ striyaḥ
nirghoṣoparataṃ tāta manye rājaniveśanam

'The women, having wailed a very loud cry, are now silent from exhaustion; the royal palace, dear one, I think, has fallen still of all its clamor.'

Words: vinadya — having cried out; sumahānādaṃ — a very loud cry; śrameṇoparatāḥ — ceased through exhaustion; striyaḥ — the women; nirghoṣoparataṃ — with its clamor stilled; tāta — dear one; manye — I think; rājaniveśanam — the royal dwelling, palace

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.