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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.68.10

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 68: Surabhi’s tears and Bharata’s vow. He compares Kausalyā’s sorrow to Surabhi’s grief for her exhausted oxen and offers to replace Rāma in exile

In the sequence: he says her actions have disgraced him too: the world will associate him with the gain she sought

2.68.10

yat tvayā dhārmiko rāmo nityaṃ satyaparāyaṇaḥ
vanaṃ prasthāpito duḥkhāt pitā ca tridivaṃ gataḥ

—since by you the righteous Rāma, ever devoted to truth, was sent off to the forest, and my father, out of grief, went to heaven.

Words: yat — since; tvayā — by you; dhārmiko — righteous; rāmo — Rāma; nityaṃ — ever, constantly; satyaparāyaṇaḥ — wholly devoted to truth; vanaṃ — to the forest; prasthāpito — sent forth; duḥkhāt — out of grief; pitā — father; ca — and; tridivaṃ — to heaven; gataḥ — went

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.