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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.14

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

2.58.14

gatvā nadyās tatas tīram apaśyam iṣuṇā hṛdi
vinirbhinnaṃ gataprāṇaṃ śayānaṃ bhuvi tāpasaṃ

'Then, going to the bank of the river, I saw an ascetic pierced in the heart by the arrow, his life gone, lying on the ground.'

Words: gatvā — having gone; nadyās — of the river; tatas — then; tīram — to the bank; apaśyam — I saw; iṣuṇā — by the arrow; hṛdi — in the heart; vinirbhinnaṃ — pierced through; gataprāṇaṃ — his life gone, lifeless; śayānaṃ — lying; bhuvi — on the ground; tāpasaṃ — an ascetic

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.