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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.63.23

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.

3.63.23

nāsty abhāgyataro loke matto 'smin sacarācare
yeneyaṃ mahatī prāptā mayā vyasanavāgurā

“There is none more luckless than I in this world of moving and unmoving things, I by whom this great snare of calamity has been caught.

Words: nāsty — there is not; abhāgyataro — more luckless; loke — in the world; matto — than me; 'smin — in this; sacarācare — (world) with its moving and unmoving beings; yeneyaṃ — by whom this; mahatī — great; prāptā — obtained, met with; mayā — by me; vyasanavāgurā — the snare of calamity

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.