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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.68.26

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 vows to restore Rāma and enter the forest himself → overwhelmed, he falls to the ground.

2.68.26

ahaṃ hy apacitiṃ bhrātuḥ pituś ca sakalām imām
vardhanaṃ yaśasaś cāpi kariṣyāmi na saṃśayaḥ

For I will render this whole honour due to my brother and my father, and increase their glory besides — of that there is no doubt.

Words: ahaṃ — I; hy — indeed; apacitiṃ — honour, requital; bhrātuḥ — to my brother; pituś ca — and to my father; sakalām — whole, entire; imām — this; vardhanaṃ — the increasing; yaśasaś cāpi — and of glory too; kariṣyāmi — I will make; na saṃśayaḥ — there is no doubt

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.