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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.72.10
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 72: Bharata stops Mantharā’s punishment. Śatrughna drags her across the floor, Bharata orders her release to avoid Rāma’s condemnation
In the sequence: Śatrughna grabs her, saying she should suffer for the harm she caused → her companions flee in fear
2.72.10
tīvram utpāditaṃ duḥkhaṃ bhrātṝṇāṃ me tathā pituḥ
yayā seyaṃ nṛśaṃsasya karmaṇaḥ phalam aśnutām
The fierce grief that this woman has caused to my brothers and to my father — let her now reap the fruit of that cruel deed.
Words: tīvram — fierce; utpāditaṃ — produced, caused; duḥkhaṃ — grief; bhrātṝṇāṃ — for the brothers; me — my; tathā — and likewise; pituḥ — for the father; yayā — by whom (fem.); seyaṃ — this very one; nṛśaṃsasya — of the cruel; karmaṇaḥ — deed; phalam — the fruit; aśnutām — let her reap, enjoy
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.