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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.80.14

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 80: Guha recounts Lakṣmaṇa’s vigil. Lakṣmaṇa refused sleep and feared for their parents, then crossed the Gaṅgā with Rāma & Sītā at dawn

In the sequence: he feared Daśaratha and Kausalyā would die of grief and that the King would never see Rāma installed

2.80.14

vinadya sumahānādaṃ śrameṇoparatāḥ striyaḥ
nirghoṣoparataṃ nūnam adya rājaniveśanam

‘Having wailed one great cry, the women have fallen silent from exhaustion; surely by now the king's palace has grown still, its clamor hushed.’

Words: vinadya — having cried out; sumahānādaṃ — a very loud wail; śrameṇoparatāḥ — grown silent from exhaustion; striyaḥ — the women; nirghoṣoparataṃ — with its clamor stilled; nūnam — surely; adya — now, today; rājaniveśanam — the king's palace

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.