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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.56.19
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 56: Return to the empty hut. Rāma imagines Sītā’s loss and its consequences, hurries back with Lakṣmaṇa and finds their dwelling deserted
In the sequence: exhausted, thirsty, and still reproaching his brother, he reaches the empty dwelling → the familiar places where they lived together intensify his grief.
3.56.19
vigarhamāṇo 'nujam ārtarūpaṃ kṣudhā śramāc caiva pipāsayā ca
viniḥśvasañ śuṣkamukho viṣaṇṇaḥ pratiśrayaṃ prāpya samīkṣya śūnyam
Reproaching his younger brother, who looked distressed, sighing from hunger, weariness, and thirst, dry-mouthed and dejected, he reached the dwelling and beheld it empty.
Words: vigarhamāṇo — reproaching; 'nujam — (his) younger brother; ārtarūpaṃ — of distressed appearance; kṣudhā — from hunger; śramāc — from weariness; caiva — and; pipāsayā — from thirst; ca — and; viniḥśvasañ — sighing; śuṣkamukho — dry-mouthed; viṣaṇṇaḥ — dejected; pratiśrayaṃ — the dwelling, shelter; prāpya — having reached; samīkṣya — having beheld; śūnyam — empty
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.