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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.97.13

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 places his head at Rāma's feet as a younger brother, pupil, and servant

2.97.13

tad idaṃ śāśvataṃ pitryaṃ sarvaṃ sacivamaṇḍalam
pūjitaṃ puruṣavyāghra nātikramitum utsahe

O tiger among men, this whole hereditary, ancestral, honoured circle of ministers — I cannot bring myself to overstep it.

Words: tad idaṃ — this; śāśvataṃ — perpetual, hereditary; pitryaṃ — ancestral, paternal; sarvaṃ — whole; sacivamaṇḍalam — circle of ministers; pūjitaṃ — honoured; puruṣavyāghra — O tiger among men; nātikramitum — not to overstep; utsahe — I am able, I dare

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.