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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.4

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: Bharata says he does not want the Kingdom and asks Rāma to return as the rightful elder

2.95.4

rājānaṃ mānuṣaṃ prāhur devatve saṃmato mama
yasya dharmārthasahitaṃ vṛttam āhur amānuṣam

Men call a king a mere human, yet in my view he is held to be of divine nature — he whose conduct, joined with duty and profit, they declare superhuman.

Words: rājānaṃ — the king; mānuṣaṃ — human; prāhur — they call; devatve — in divinity; saṃmato — held, agreed; mama — in my view; yasya — whose; dharmārthasahitaṃ — joined with duty and profit; vṛttam — conduct; āhur — they call; amānuṣam — superhuman

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.