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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.4

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: Continuing the account, Daśaratha says he took the water pot to the hermitage

2.58.4

tannimittābhir āsīnau kathābhir aparikramau
tām āśāṃ matkṛte hīnāv udāsīnāv anāthavat

The two of them seated, unable to stir, engaged in talk occasioned by him, deprived on my account of that hope, listless like helpless folk.

Words: tannimittābhir — occasioned by him; āsīnau — the two seated; kathābhir — with talk; aparikramau — unable to move about; tām — that; āśāṃ — hope; matkṛte — on my account; hīnāv — deprived (both); udāsīnāv — listless, indifferent (both); anāthavat — like helpless ones

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.