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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.10

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 58: The curse and Daśaratha’s death. The youth’s father condemns him to die grieving for a son, Daśaratha recalls the curse and dies calling for Rāma

In the sequence: Daśaratha identified himself and confessed that he had mistaken the sound of the filling pot for an animal → he told the father that the youth had died when he withdrew the arrow

2.58.10

manasaḥ karma ceṣṭābhir abhisaṃstabhya vāgbalam
ācacakṣe tv ahaṃ tasmai putravyasanajaṃ bhayam

Steadying the power of my speech by the effort and action of my mind, I told him of the danger arising from the calamity to his son.

Words: manasaḥ — of the mind; karma — the action; ceṣṭābhir — by efforts; abhisaṃstabhya — having steadied, braced; vāgbalam — the power of speech; ācacakṣe — I told, related; tv — indeed; ahaṃ — I; tasmai — to him; putravyasanajaṃ — born of the calamity to (his) son; bhayam — danger, fear

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.