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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.9
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: Rāma faints at the news
2.95.9
vāgvajraṃ bharatenoktam amanojñaṃ paraṃtapaḥ
pragṛhya bāhū rāmo vai puṣpitāgro yathā drumaḥ
vane paraśunā kṛttas tathā bhuvi papāta ha
Receiving that unwelcome word-thunderbolt uttered by Bharata, the scorcher of foes Rāma threw up his arms and fell to the ground, like a tree in full flower cut down by an axe in the forest.
Words: vāgvajraṃ — the word-thunderbolt; bharatenoktam — spoken by Bharata; amanojñaṃ — unwelcome, unpleasant; paraṃtapaḥ — the scorcher of foes; pragṛhya — having thrown up, seized; bāhū — the two arms; rāmo — Rāma; vai — indeed; puṣpitāgro — having blossomed tips; yathā — as; drumaḥ — tree; vane — in the forest; paraśunā — by an axe; kṛttas — cut down; tathā — so; bhuvi — on the ground; papāta — fell; ha — indeed
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.