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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.2.19

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 2: Virādha’s attack. The weapon-bearing man-eater seizes Sītā and claims her as his wife, Lakṣmaṇa steadies Rāma and vows to kill him

In the sequence: he says that seeing Sītā in another's grasp is more painful than his father's death or the loss of his Kingdom

3.2.19

parasparśāt tu vaidehyā na duḥkhataram asti me
pitur vināśāt saumitre svarājyaharaṇāt tathā

There is nothing more painful to me, Saumitri, than the touch of Vaidehī by a stranger — worse even than the death of our father or the seizure of my own kingdom.

Words: parasparśāt — from the touch of a stranger; tu — but; vaidehyā — of Vaidehī; na — not; duḥkhataram — more painful; asti — is; me — to me; pitur — of the father; vināśāt — than the death, destruction; saumitre — O Saumitri (Lakṣmaṇa); svarājyaharaṇāt — than the seizure of my own kingdom; tathā — and, likewise

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.