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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.44

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: as they made the water offering, the youth appeared in a divine form, assured them that service to them had earned him a high place, and ascended → the youth's father then cursed Daśaratha to experience the same grief for a son and die from it.

2.58.44

adyaiva jahi māṃ rājan maraṇe nāsti me vyathā
yac chareṇaikaputraṃ māṃ tvam akārṣīr aputrakam

'Kill me this very day, O king; I have no dread of death, since with an arrow you have made me, who had a single son, sonless.'

Words: adyaiva — this very day; jahi — kill; māṃ — me; rājan — O king; maraṇe — in (facing) death; nāsti — there is not; me — for me; vyathā — dread, pain; yac — since; chareṇaikaputraṃ — with an arrow (me) who had one son; māṃ — me; tvam — you; akārṣīr — have made; aputrakam — sonless

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.