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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.45

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: their cries reach the camp, and people hurry toward them → Rāma receives the grieving followers affectionately.

2.95.45

tān narān bāṣpapūrṇākṣān samīkṣyātha suduḥkhitān
paryaṣvajata dharmajñaḥ pitṛvan mātṛvac ca saḥ

Then, seeing those men with eyes full of tears and deeply distressed, the knower of dharma embraced them like a father and like a mother.

Words: tān — those; narān — men; bāṣpapūrṇākṣān — with eyes full of tears; samīkṣyātha — having seen, then; suduḥkhitān — deeply distressed; paryaṣvajata — embraced; dharmajñaḥ — the knower of dharma; pitṛvan — like a father; mātṛvac — like a mother; ca — and; saḥ — he

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.