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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.55.17
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 55: Kausalyā reproaches Daśaratha. She fears Rāma will reject Bharata’s former Kingdom even after returning, Daśaratha collapses and recalls his past wrongdoing
In the sequence: she says Daśaratha has deprived her of both her husband's support and her son's presence; in this outburst she also says she does not wish to go to the forest herself
2.55.17
dvijāti carito dharmaḥ śāstradṛṣṭaḥ sanātanaḥ
yadi te dharmanirate tvayā putre vivāsite
“There is an eternal dharma, practised by the twice-born and taught in the scriptures—(what of it now,) when your two sons, devoted to dharma, have been driven into exile by you?
Words: dvijāti — by the twice-born; carito — practised, followed; dharmaḥ — dharma; śāstradṛṣṭaḥ — seen in the scriptures; sanātanaḥ — eternal, everlasting; yadi — if, when; te — your; dharmanirate — devoted to dharma; tvayā — by you; putre — the two sons; vivāsite — have been exiled (dual)
Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.