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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.68.8
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
2.68.8
kausalyā ca sumitrā ca yāś cānyā mama mātaraḥ
duḥkhena mahatāviṣṭās tvāṃ prāpya kuladūṣiṇīm
Kausalyā and Sumitrā, and whatever other mothers I have, are seized with great grief at having got you, the defiler of the family.
Words: kausalyā — Kausalyā; ca — and; sumitrā — Sumitrā; ca — and; yāś cānyā — and whatever others; mama — my; mātaraḥ — mothers; duḥkhena — with grief; mahatāviṣṭās — seized by a great (grief); tvāṃ — you; prāpya — having got; kuladūṣiṇīm — the defiler of the family
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.