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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.63.3

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 63: Bharata’s ominous dream. Daśaratha falls into filth and oil and travels south in a donkey-drawn chariot, Bharata wakes fearing a family death

In the sequence: his companions try music, dancing, stories, and jokes, but cannot cheer him

2.63.3

tapyamānaṃ samājñāya vayasyāḥ priyavādinaḥ
āyāsaṃ hi vineṣyantaḥ sabhāyāṃ cakrire kathāḥ

Perceiving him tormented, his kindly-speaking companions, wishing to dispel his distress, carried on talk in the assembly hall.

Words: tapyamānaṃ — (him) being tormented; samājñāya — having perceived; vayasyāḥ — companions, friends; priyavādinaḥ — speaking kindly; āyāsaṃ — the distress; hi — indeed; vineṣyantaḥ — wishing to dispel; sabhāyāṃ — in the assembly hall; cakrire — made, carried on; kathāḥ — talk, stories

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.