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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.62.13

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 62: Lakṣmaṇa recalls Rāma’s own teaching. Even the great suffer loss, judgment and effort must survive grief so that the enemy can be found and defeated

In the sequence: he urges Rāma to maintain judgment and hope rather than surrender to grief

3.62.13

naṣṭāyām api vaidehyāṃ hṛtāyām api cānagha
śocituṃ nārhase vīra yathānyaḥ prākṛtas tathā

“Though Vaidehī be lost, though she be carried off, O blameless one, you ought not to grieve, hero, as another common man would.

Words: naṣṭāyām — lost, perished; api — even, though; vaidehyāṃ — Vaidehī; hṛtāyām — carried off; api — even; cānagha — and O blameless one; śocituṃ — to grieve; nārhase — you ought not; vīra — O hero; yathānyaḥ — as another; prākṛtas — common man; tathā — so

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.