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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.6

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

2.91.6

kathaṃ nu putrāḥ pitaraṃ hanyuḥ kasyāṃ cid āpadi
bhrātā vā bhrātaraṃ hanyāt saumitre prāṇam ātmanaḥ

How indeed could sons slay their father in any calamity, or a brother slay a brother, Saumitri, who is his own very life?

Words: kathaṃ nu — how indeed; putrāḥ — sons; pitaraṃ — the father; hanyuḥ — could slay; kasyāṃ cid āpadi — in any calamity; bhrātā vā — or a brother; bhrātaraṃ — the brother; hanyāt — could slay; saumitre — O Saumitri; prāṇam ātmanaḥ — (who is) his own life-breath

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.