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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.17

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

2.95.17

purā prekṣya suvṛttaṃ māṃ pitā yāny āha sāntvayan
vākyāni tāni śroṣyāmi kutaḥ karṇasukhāny aham

Those words which my father, seeing me of old well-conducted, spoke to console me — where shall I ever hear those words that were sweet to the ear?

Words: purā — of old, formerly; prekṣya — having seen; suvṛttaṃ — of good conduct; māṃ — me; pitā — father; yāny — which; āha — spoke; sāntvayan — consoling; vākyāni — words; tāni — those; śroṣyāmi — shall I hear; kutaḥ — whence, where; karṇasukhāny — pleasing to the ear; aham — I

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.