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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.67.3
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 67: Bharata rejects Kaikeyī’s scheme. He condemns the loss of his father and elder brother, refuses the Kingdom and promises to bring Rāma back
In the sequence: Bharata asks what use a Kingdom is without his father and the elder brother who was like a father to him
2.67.3
duḥkhe me duḥkham akaror vraṇe kṣāram ivādadhāḥ
rājānaṃ pretabhāvasthaṃ kṛtvā rāmaṃ ca tāpasaṃ
You have heaped grief upon my grief, as though laying caustic on a wound, having reduced the king to the state of the dead and made Rāma an ascetic.
Words: duḥkhe — upon grief; me — my; duḥkham — grief; akaror — you made; vraṇe — on a wound; kṣāram — caustic, alkaline salt; ivādadhāḥ — as if you applied; rājānaṃ — the king; pretabhāvasthaṃ — in the state of the dead; kṛtvā — having made; rāmaṃ — Rāma; ca — and; tāpasaṃ — an ascetic
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.