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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.98.45

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

2.98.45

na tvām evaṃ guṇair yuktaṃ prabhavābhavakovidam
aviṣahyatamaṃ duḥkham āsādayitum arhati

Endowed with such virtues, skilled in origination and dissolution, you should not be overtaken by even the most unbearable sorrow.

Words: na tvām — not you; evaṃ guṇair yuktaṃ — endowed with such virtues; prabhavābhavakovidam — skilled in origin and cessation; aviṣahyatamaṃ — most unbearable; duḥkham — sorrow; āsādayitum arhati — ought to overtake

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.