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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.4
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: he asks what Bharata has ever done to justify this suspicion and says that insulting Bharata is an injury to himself
2.91.4
vipriyaṃ kṛtapūrvaṃ te bharatena kadā na kim
īdṛśaṃ vā bhayaṃ te 'dya bharataṃ yo 'tra śaṅkase
When has Bharata ever before done anything displeasing to you? Or what such fear of Bharata is yours today, that you here suspect him?
Words: vipriyaṃ — a displeasing thing; kṛtapūrvaṃ — done before; te — to you; bharatena — by Bharata; kadā — when (ever); na — not, never; kim — what, at all; īdṛśaṃ vā — or such a; bhayaṃ — fear; te — your; 'dya — today; bharataṃ — Bharata; yo — who; 'tra — here; śaṅkase — you suspect, fear
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.