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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.67.8

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: he reminds her that Rāma treated her as his mother and Kausalyā treated her as a sister

2.67.8

tasyāḥ putraṃ kṛtātmānaṃ cīravalkalavāsasaṃ
prasthāpya vanavāsāya kathaṃ pāpe na śocasi

Having sent off her disciplined son, clad in bark and tree-rind, to dwell in the forest, how do you feel no grief, O wicked woman?

Words: tasyāḥ — her; putraṃ — son; kṛtātmānaṃ — of perfected soul, disciplined; cīravalkalavāsasaṃ — wearing garments of bark and tree-rind; prasthāpya — having sent off; vanavāsāya — for dwelling in the forest; kathaṃ — how; pāpe — O wicked woman; na — not; śocasi — do you grieve

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.