Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa 91: Rāma restrains Lakṣmaṇa · 2.91.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.1

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 91: Rāma restrains Lakṣmaṇa. He rejects suspicion of Bharata and shames his brother’s anger, Bharata spreads the camp around the mountain to avoid crowding the hermitage

In the sequence: Rāma tells Lakṣmaṇa that weapons are unnecessary: Bharata would not wish them harm

2.91.1

susaṃrabdhaṃ tu saumitriṃ lakṣmaṇaṃ krodhamūrchitam
rāmas tu parisāntvyātha vacanaṃ cedam abravīt

But Rāma, soothing the greatly agitated Saumitri, Lakṣmaṇa, who was beside himself with anger, spoke these words:

Words: susaṃrabdhaṃ — greatly agitated, incensed; tu — but; saumitriṃ — Saumitri (son of Sumitrā); lakṣmaṇaṃ — Lakṣmaṇa; krodhamūrchitam — overcome, stupefied with anger; rāmas — Rāma; tu — but, and; parisāntvyātha — having soothed, then; vacanaṃ cedam — and these words; abravīt — spoke

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.