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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.98.43

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 98: Bharata’s appeal and Rāma’s answer. Bharata asks him to restore the Kingdom, Rāma teaches the inevitability of loss, separation and death

In the sequence: Bharata admires Rāma's steadiness but argues that a good son should correct a father's harmful decision → he rejects Kaikeyī's action and asks Rāma to rescue the family and people from its consequences

2.98.43

yasyaiṣa buddhilābhaḥ syāt paritapyeta kena saḥ
sa evaṃ vyasanaṃ prāpya na viṣīditum arhati

For one who has attained such wisdom—by what could he be tormented? Such a man, meeting with calamity, ought not to despair.

Words: yasyaiṣa — for whom this; buddhilābhaḥ — attainment of wisdom; syāt — should be; paritapyeta — could be tormented; kena — by what; saḥ — he; sa — he; evaṃ — thus; vyasanaṃ prāpya — having met with calamity; na viṣīditum arhati — ought not to despair

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.