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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.84.12

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 84: Bharadvāja questions Bharata. Bharata leaves his army and weapons behind, denies seeking to eliminate his brothers and is invited to stay before continuing

In the sequence: Bharadvāja asks whether Bharata has come to eliminate Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa as rivals

2.84.12

niyuktaḥ strīniyuktena pitrā yo 'sau mahāyaśāḥ
vanavāsī bhavetīha samāḥ kila caturdaśa

that greatly renowned one who was commanded by his father — himself directed by a woman — ‘Be a forest-dweller here for fourteen years’—

Words: niyuktaḥ — commanded, enjoined; strīniyuktena — directed by a woman; pitrā — by the father; yo — who; 'sau — that; mahāyaśāḥ — greatly renowned; vanavāsī — a forest-dweller; bhavetīha — ‘let him be here’; samāḥ — years; kila — indeed; caturdaśa — fourteen

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.