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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.71.6
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: on the thirteenth morning he returns to the pyre and laments that both his father and the brother entrusted with his care are gone
2.71.6
tāta yasmin niṣṛṣṭo 'haṃ tvayā bhrātari rāghave
tasmin vanaṃ pravrajite śūnye tyakto 'smy ahaṃ tvayā
Father, the brother Rāghava in whose charge I was placed by you — now that he has gone forth to the forest, I am left abandoned by you in this desolation.
Words: tāta — father; yasmin — in whom; niṣṛṣṭo 'haṃ — I was entrusted; tvayā — by you; bhrātari rāghave — to the brother Rāghava (Rāma); tasmin — when he; vanaṃ — to the forest; pravrajite — had gone forth; śūnye — in the empty, desolate (place); tyakto 'smy ahaṃ — I have been abandoned; tvayā — by you
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.