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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.45.12

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 45: Rāvaṇa reveals his identity. Sītā recounts her marriage and exile, he offers Queenship in Laṅkā and she rejects him with warnings of destruction

In the sequence: she tells how Kaikeyī delivered the fourteen-year command and Rāma accepted it to preserve his father's truth

3.45.12

tava pitrā samājñaptaṃ mamedaṃ śṛṇu rāghava
bharatāya pradātavyam idaṃ rājyam akaṇṭakam

'Hear, Rāghava, what your father has enjoined upon me: this unrivaled kingdom is to be given to Bharata,'

Words: tava — your; pitrā — by (your) father; samājñaptaṃ — commanded, ordained; mamedaṃ — to me this; śṛṇu — hear; rāghava — O Rāghava; bharatāya — to Bharata; pradātavyam — should be given; idaṃ — this; rājyam — kingdom; akaṇṭakam — free of thorns, unrivaled

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.