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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.10

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: Lakṣmaṇa becomes ashamed

2.91.10

vrīḍitaṃ lakṣmaṇaṃ dṛṣṭvā rāghavaḥ pratyuvāca ha
eṣa manye mahābāhur ihāsmān draṣṭum āgataḥ

Seeing Lakṣmaṇa abashed, Rāghava replied: “I think this mighty-armed one has come here to see us.

Words: vrīḍitaṃ — abashed, ashamed; lakṣmaṇaṃ dṛṣṭvā — seeing Lakṣmaṇa; rāghavaḥ — Rāghava; pratyuvāca ha — replied; eṣa manye — this one, I think; mahābāhur — the mighty-armed; ihāsmān — us here; draṣṭum āgataḥ — has come to see

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.