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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.55.20
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: accusing him of bringing ruin on the family and city, she intensifies his distress → he faints, and the memory of an earlier wrongdoing returns to him.
2.55.20
hataṃ tvayā rājyam idaṃ sarāṣṭraṃ hatas tathātmā saha mantribhiś ca
hatā saputrāsmi hatāś ca paurāḥ sutaś ca bhāryā ca tava prahṛṣṭau
hatā saputrāsmi hatāś ca paurāḥ
sutaś ca bhāryā ca tava prahṛṣṭau
“By you this kingdom together with its realm is ruined; yourself, too, is ruined along with your ministers; I with my son am ruined, and the townsfolk are ruined—while your (other) son and his wife rejoice.
Words: hataṃ — ruined, destroyed; tvayā — by you; rājyam — the kingdom; idaṃ — this; sarāṣṭraṃ — together with its realm; hatas — ruined; tathātmā — also yourself; saha — together with; mantribhiś — with the ministers; ca — and; hatā — ruined; saputrāsmi — I with my son am; hatāś — ruined; ca — and; paurāḥ — the townsfolk; sutaś — the son; ca — and; bhāryā — the wife; ca — and; tava — your; prahṛṣṭau — the two rejoice, are delighted
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.