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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.71.23

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 71: Daśaratha’s remaining rites. Bharata performs śrāddha and distributes gifts, the brothers grieve over the ashes and bones, Vasiṣṭha & Sumantra help them complete their duties

In the sequence: Vasiṣṭha raises and comforts Bharata, while Sumantra does the same for Śatrughna → reminded that death is unavoidable, they recover enough to complete the remaining duties.

2.71.23

sumantraś cāpi śatrughnam utthāpyābhiprasādya ca
śrāvayām āsa tattvajñaḥ sarvabhūtabhavābhavau

And Sumantra too, raising Śatrughna up and consoling him, that knower of truth, made him hear of the coming-to-be and passing-away of all creatures.

Words: sumantraś cāpi — and Sumantra too; śatrughnam — Śatrughna; utthāpyābhiprasādya ca — having raised up and consoled; śrāvayām āsa — made (him) hear, instructed; tattvajñaḥ — the knower of truth; sarvabhūtabhavābhavau — the birth and death of all beings

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.