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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.47.22

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

2.47.22

manye prītiviśiṣṭā sā matto lakṣmaṇasārikā
yasyās tac chrūyate vākyaṃ śuka pādam arer daśa

I think that mynah bird is now more favoured than I am, Lakṣmaṇa — the one whose speech is heard: 'Parrot, bite the enemy's foot!'

Words: manye — I think; prītiviśiṣṭā — specially favoured, distinguished by affection; sā — she, that (bird); matto — than me; lakṣmaṇasārikā — O Lakṣmaṇa, the mynah bird; yasyās — whose; tac — that; chrūyate — is heard; vākyaṃ — word, speech; śuka — O parrot; pādam — the foot; arer — of the enemy; daśa — bite!

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.