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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.47.19

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 47: Rāma grieves and asks Lakṣmaṇa to return. Rāma fears for his parents and asks Lakṣmaṇa to return, Lakṣmaṇa refuses to leave him and steadies his resolve

In the sequence: he reproaches himself for bringing his mother sorrow when she had expected happiness from him

2.47.19

nūnaṃ jātyantare kasmiṃḥ striyaḥ putrair viyojitāḥ
jananyā mama saumitre tad apy etad upasthitam

Surely in some former birth women were parted from their sons by my mother, Saumitri; and now that too has come home to her.

Words: nūnaṃ — surely; jātyantare — in another birth; kasmiṃḥ — in some; striyaḥ — women; putrair — from their sons; viyojitāḥ — were separated; jananyā — by the mother; mama — my; saumitre — O Saumitri; tad apy — that too; etad — this; upasthitam — has come upon (her)

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.