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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.3

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

2.91.3

prāptakālaṃ yad eṣo 'smān bharato draṣṭum icchati
asmāsu manasāpy eṣa nāhitaṃ kiṃ cid ācaret

That Bharata wishes to see us is timely; not even in thought would he do us any harm.

Words: prāptakālaṃ — timely, opportune; yad — that; eṣo — he; 'smān — us; bharato — Bharata; draṣṭum icchati — wishes to see; asmāsu — toward us; manasāpy — even in mind; eṣa — he; nāhitaṃ — nothing harmful; kiṃ cid — anything; ācaret — would do, practice

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.