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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.16

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

2.58.16

sa coddhṛtena bāṇena tatraiva svargam āsthitaḥ
bhagavantāv ubhau śocann andhāv iti vilapya ca

'And when the arrow was drawn out, he attained heaven right there, grieving and wailing, "Alas, both my venerable parents are blind."'

Words: sa — he; coddhṛtena — and with (the arrow) drawn out; bāṇena — by the arrow; tatraiva — right there; svargam — heaven; āsthitaḥ — attained, went to; bhagavantāv — the two venerable ones; ubhau — both; śocann — grieving; andhāv — blind (both); iti — thus (saying); vilapya — having lamented; ca — and

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.