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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.55.19
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
2.55.19
tatra tvaṃ caiva me nāsti rāmaś ca vanam āśritaḥ
na vanaṃ gantum icchāmi sarvathā hi hatā tvayā
“Of these, you yourself are lost to me, and Rāma has betaken himself to the forest; I do not wish to go to the forest—in every way I have been destroyed by you.
Words: tatra — therein, of those; tvaṃ — you; caiva — and indeed; me — to me, mine; nāsti — are not, are lost; rāmaś — Rāma; ca — and; vanam — to the forest; āśritaḥ — has resorted, betaken himself; na — not; vanaṃ — to the forest; gantum — to go; icchāmi — I wish; sarvathā — in every way, utterly; hi — for, indeed; hatā — destroyed, ruined; tvayā — by you
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.