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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.45.14

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

3.45.14

tathety uvāca tāṃ rāmaḥ kaikeyīm akutobhayaḥ
cakāra tadvacas tasyā mama bhartā dṛḍhavrataḥ

'So be it,' fearless Rāma said to her, to Kaikeyī; and my husband, steadfast in his vow, carried out her word.

Words: tathety — 'so be it' thus; uvāca — said; tāṃ — to her; rāmaḥ — Rāma; kaikeyīm — to Kaikeyī; akutobhayaḥ — fearing nothing from any quarter; cakāra — carried out; tadvacas — that word; tasyā — her; mama — my; bhartā — husband; dṛḍhavrataḥ — steadfast in vow

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.