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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.15.33
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 15: Rāma’s winter bath in the Godāvarī. Lakṣmaṇa describes cold water and imagines Bharata’s Sarayū bath, Rāma bathes with Sītā & Lakṣmaṇa and offers water
In the sequence: he says Bharata disproves the saying that a son takes after his mother, then wonders how Kaikeyī could be so cruel with Daśaratha as her husband and Bharata as her son
3.15.33
bhartā daśaratho yasyāḥ sādhuś ca bharataḥ sutaḥ
kathaṃ nu sāmbā kaikeyī tādṛśī krūradarśinī
She whose husband was Daśaratha and whose son is the good Bharata — how could that mother Kaikeyī be so cruel of intent?
Words: bhartā — the husband; daśaratho — Daśaratha; yasyāḥ — of whom (fem.); sādhuś — good, virtuous; ca — and; bharataḥ — Bharata; sutaḥ — the son; kathaṃ nu — how indeed; sāmbā — she, the mother (with 'ambā'); kaikeyī — Kaikeyī; tādṛśī — of such a kind; krūradarśinī — cruel of aspect/intent
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.