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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.6

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: the blind father heard his footsteps and assumed his son had returned; he asked why he had been so long and why he was silent

2.58.6

yannimittam idaṃ tāta salile krīḍitaṃ tvayā
utkaṇṭhitā te māteyaṃ praviśa kṣipram āśramam

For whatever reason you have played in the water, my child — this mother of yours is anxious; enter the hermitage quickly.

Words: yannimittam — for what reason; idaṃ — this; tāta — my child; salile — in the water; krīḍitaṃ — played; tvayā — by you; utkaṇṭhitā — anxious, longing; te — your; māteyaṃ — this mother; praviśa — enter; kṣipram — quickly; āśramam — the hermitage

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.