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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.60.15

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 60: Daśaratha’s body preserved in oil. Kausalyā blames Kaikeyī, the ministers place the body in an oil trough and await a son before cremation

In the sequence: the palace and city continue mourning, and the people openly condemn Kaikeyī.

2.60.15

bāhūn udyamya kṛpaṇā netraprasravaṇair mukhaiḥ
rudantyaḥ śokasaṃtaptāḥ kṛpaṇaṃ paryadevayan

Raising their arms, the wretched women, weeping with faces streaming tears from their eyes, tormented by grief, lamented piteously.

Words: bāhūn — their arms; udyamya — having raised; kṛpaṇā — wretched, piteous; netraprasravaṇair — with (faces) that are fountains of the eyes; mukhaiḥ — with faces; rudantyaḥ — weeping; śokasaṃtaptāḥ — burning with grief; kṛpaṇaṃ — piteously; paryadevayan — lamented

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.