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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.73.3

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 73: Bharata’s plan to restore Rāma. He refuses the prepared abhiṣeka, orders its materials taken to the forest and commissions a road for the expedition

In the sequence: On the fourteenth morning, the officials ask Bharata to accept the prepared abhiṣeka and protect the leaderless Kingdom

2.73.3

tvam adya bhava no rājā rājaputra mahāyaśaḥ
saṃgatyā nāparādhnoti rājyam etad anāyakam

Become our king this day, O illustrious prince; by your timely accession this leaderless kingdom will not fall into ruin.

Words: tvam — you; adya — today; bhava — become; no — our; rājā — king; rājaputra — O prince; mahāyaśaḥ — O illustrious one; saṃgatyā — by (this) timely union; nāparādhnoti — incurs no harm, does not go to ruin; rājyam — the kingdom; etad — this; anāyakam — leaderless

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.