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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.16

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 95: Rāma’s offerings for Daśaratha. Hearing of his death, Rāma collapses, then offers Mandākinī water and iṅgudī paste with jujube as his own forest fare

In the sequence: he laments that he could not serve his father at the end and wonders who will welcome or guide him when the exile is over

2.95.16

samāptavanavāsaṃ mām ayodhyāyāṃ paraṃtapa
ko nu śāsiṣyati punas tāte lokāntaraṃ gate

Now that our father has gone to the other world, O scorcher of foes, who will guide me, my forest-exile completed, in Ayodhyā?

Words: samāptavanavāsaṃ — having completed the forest-dwelling; mām — me; ayodhyāyāṃ — in Ayodhyā; paraṃtapa — O scorcher of foes; ko — who; nu — now; śāsiṣyati — will guide, instruct; punas — again; tāte — the father (having); lokāntaraṃ — to the other world; gate — gone

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.