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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.69.34

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 69: Kausalyā accepts Bharata’s innocence. Suspected of seeking the Kingdom, Bharata invokes curses on anyone who approved the exile and wins her trust

In the sequence: he spends the night overwhelmed by grief.

2.69.34

lālapyamānasya vicetanasya pranaṣṭabuddheḥ patitasya bhūmau
muhur muhur niḥśvasataś ca dīrghaṃ sā tasya śokena jagāma rātriḥ

For him wailing, out of his senses, his wits utterly lost, fallen upon the ground and sighing deep again and again, that night passed away in grief.

Words: lālapyamānasya — of him wailing, lamenting piteously; vicetanasya — out of his senses; pranaṣṭabuddheḥ — his wits utterly lost; patitasya — fallen; bhūmau — on the ground; muhur muhur — again and again; niḥśvasataś — sighing; ca — and; dīrghaṃ — deeply, long; sā — that; tasya — his; śokena — in grief; jagāma — passed, went by; rātriḥ — the night

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.