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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.8

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: if Lakṣmaṇa's concern is the Kingdom, Rāma says, Bharata would give it to him at his request

2.91.8

ucyamāno hi bharato mayā lakṣmaṇa tattvataḥ
rājyam asmai prayaccheti bāḍham ity eva vakṣyati

For when Bharata is told by me truly, Lakṣmaṇa, ‘Give over the kingdom to him,’ he will answer only, ‘So be it.’

Words: ucyamāno hi — for when told; bharato — Bharata; mayā — by me; lakṣmaṇa — O Lakṣmaṇa; tattvataḥ — truly, in truth; rājyam asmai — the kingdom to him; prayaccheti — ‘(you) give over’; bāḍham ity eva — just ‘certainly!’; vakṣyati — he will say

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.