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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.97.5

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: Bharata recounts their father's grief and his mother's role in the disaster

2.97.5

āryaṃ tātaḥ parityajya kṛtvā karma suduṣkaram
gataḥ svargaṃ mahābāhuḥ putraśokābhipīḍitaḥ

“Father, having forsaken the noble one and done a most difficult deed, the mighty-armed one, tormented by grief for his son, has gone to heaven.

Words: āryaṃ — the noble one; tātaḥ — father; parityajya — having forsaken; kṛtvā — having done; karma — a deed; suduṣkaram — most difficult; gataḥ — gone; svargaṃ — to heaven; mahābāhuḥ — the mighty-armed; putraśokābhipīḍitaḥ — tormented by grief for his son

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.