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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.98.52

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

2.98.52

sādhv artham abhisaṃdhāya krodhān mohāc ca sāhasāt
tātasya yad atikrāntaṃ pratyāharatu tad bhavān

Wisely fixing your aim on what is right, may you undo that transgression of our father's which sprang from anger, delusion, and rashness.

Words: sādhv artham — the good aim, what is right; abhisaṃdhāya — having aimed at, resolved on; krodhān — out of anger; mohāc ca — and out of delusion; sāhasāt — out of rashness; tātasya — of (our) father; yad atikrāntaṃ — what was transgressed; pratyāharatu — let (you) withdraw, undo; tad bhavān — that, you

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.