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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.43.20

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 43: Lakṣmaṇa leaves Sītā. He identifies the cry as deception, but her accusations overcome his resolve to stay and he departs toward Rāma

In the sequence: Sītā grows angrier, accusing him either of pursuing her himself or of acting for Bharata → she insists that she would die rather than belong to another man.

3.43.20

anārya karuṇārambha nṛśaṃsa kulapāṃsana
ahaṃ tava priyaṃ manye tenaitāni prabhāṣase

'O ignoble one, whose show of pity is a pretense, cruel disgrace of your line! I think this is what pleases you, and so you speak these things. [karuṇārambha: sense uncertain.]

Words: anārya — O ignoble one; karuṇārambha — O you who make a show of pity; nṛśaṃsa — O cruel one; kulapāṃsana — O disgrace of your line; ahaṃ — I; tava — to you; priyaṃ — dear, pleasing; manye — I think; tenaitāni — therefore these things; prabhāṣase — you say

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.