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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.63.22

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 63: Discovery of the wounded Jaṭāyu. Rāma mistakes him for Sītā’s killer, Jaṭāyu names Rāvaṇa and explains the wreckage, the brothers embrace him

In the sequence: Rāma laments that this aged friend of Daśaratha has suffered on his account → he tends and embraces the wounded bird before sinking to the ground in grief.

3.63.22

saṃpūrṇam api ced adya pratareyaṃ mahodadhim
so 'pi nūnaṃ mamālakṣmyā viśuṣyet saritāṃ patiḥ

“Were I today to cross even the brimming great ocean, that lord of rivers too would surely be dried up by my ill fortune.

Words: saṃpūrṇam — brimful, full; api — even; ced — if; adya — today; pratareyaṃ — I were to cross; mahodadhim — the great ocean; so — he, that; 'pi — also, too; nūnaṃ — surely; mamālakṣmyā — by my ill fortune; viśuṣyet — would dry up; saritāṃ — of rivers; patiḥ — the lord

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.