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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.43.22

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.

3.43.22

suduṣṭas tvaṃ vane rāmam ekam eko 'nugacchasi
mama hetoḥ praticchannaḥ prayukto bharatena vā

You are utterly wicked: alone, you follow the lone Rāma into the forest — for my sake, in disguise, or perhaps set on by Bharata.

Words: suduṣṭas — utterly wicked; tvaṃ — you; vane — in the forest; rāmam — Rāma; ekam — alone (him); eko — alone (you); 'nugacchasi — you follow; mama — my; hetoḥ — for the sake of; praticchannaḥ — in disguise, concealed; prayukto — set on, employed; bharatena — by Bharata; vā — or

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.