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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.60.4

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: deprived of both husband and son, she feels abandoned and blames Kaikeyī's ambition for the family's destruction

2.60.4

vihāya māṃ gato rāmo bhartā ca svargato mama
vipathe sārthahīneva nāhaṃ jīvitum utsahe

Rāma has gone, forsaking me, and my husband has gone to heaven; like a woman left without her caravan on a trackless road, I have no will to live.

Words: vihāya — having abandoned; māṃ — me; gato — has gone; rāmo — Rāma; bhartā — husband; ca — and; svargato — gone to heaven; mama — my; vipathe — on a wrong road, off the path; sārthahīneva — like one bereft of the caravan; nāhaṃ — not I; jīvitum — to live; utsahe — am able, have the will

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.