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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.5

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

2.91.5

na hi te niṣṭhuraṃ vācyo bharato nāpriyaṃ vacaḥ
ahaṃ hy apriyam uktaḥ syāṃ bharatasyāpriye kṛte

You must speak nothing harsh to Bharata, no unkind word; for if a wrong were done to Bharata, it is I who would be wronged.

Words: na hi — for not; te — by you; niṣṭhuraṃ — harsh (thing); vācyo — is to be spoken; bharato — (to) Bharata; nāpriyaṃ — nor an unkind; vacaḥ — word; ahaṃ hy — for I; apriyam uktaḥ syāṃ — would be addressed unkindly, wronged; bharatasyāpriye kṛte — if an offense were done to Bharata

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.