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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.11

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

2.58.11

kṣatriyo 'haṃ daśaratho nāhaṃ putro mahātmanaḥ
sajjanāvamataṃ duḥkham idaṃ prāptaṃ svakarmajam

'I am a kshatriya, Daśaratha; I am not the son of the great-souled one. This grief, scorned by the good, has come upon me, born of my own deed.'

Words: kṣatriyo — a kshatriya; 'haṃ — I; daśaratho — Daśaratha; nāhaṃ — I am not; putro — the son; mahātmanaḥ — of the great-souled one; sajjanāvamataṃ — scorned by good people; duḥkham — grief; idaṃ — this; prāptaṃ — obtained, come upon; svakarmajam — born of my own deed

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.