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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.15

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

2.58.15

bhagavañ śabdam ālakṣya mayā gajajighāṃsunā
visṛṣṭo 'mbhasi nārācas tena te nihataḥ sutaḥ

'Venerable one, marking the sound, I, wishing to kill an elephant, loosed an iron arrow into the water; by it your son was slain.'

Words: bhagavañ — O venerable one; śabdam — the sound; ālakṣya — having marked; mayā — by me; gajajighāṃsunā — wishing to kill an elephant; visṛṣṭo — loosed, discharged; 'mbhasi — into the water; nārācas — an iron arrow; tena — by it; te — your; nihataḥ — was slain; sutaḥ — son

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.