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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.97.11

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 97: Bharata offers Rāma the Kingdom. Rāma absolves him of blame but insists that both brothers honour their father’s division between Kingdom and forest

In the sequence: he asks Rāma to accept his hereditary Kingdom for the sake of the people, the widowed Queens, and his brother

2.97.11

bhavatv avidhavā bhūmiḥ samagrā patinā tvayā
śaśinā vimaleneva śāradī rajanī yathā

Let the whole earth become un-widowed through you as her lord, as an autumn night is made radiant by the spotless moon.

Words: bhavatv — let it become; avidhavā — un-widowed; bhūmiḥ — the earth; samagrā — whole, entire; patinā tvayā — through you as her lord; śaśinā — through the moon; vimaleneva — as by the spotless one; śāradī — autumnal; rajanī — night; yathā — as

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.