Chapter 77 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 77

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 77.4

शब्दापिहितकण्ठश्च शोधनार्थमुपागतः। चितामूले पितुर्वाक्यमिदमाह सुदुःखितः॥ तात यस्मिन् निसृष्टोऽहं त्वया भ्रातरि राघवे। तस्मिन् वनं प्रव्रजिते शून्ये त्यक्तोऽस्म्यहं त्वया॥

śabdāpihitakaṇṭhaśca śodhanārthamupāgataḥ| citāmūle piturvākyamidamāha suduḥkhitaḥ|| tāta yasmin nisṛṣṭo'haṃ tvayā bhrātari rāghave| tasmin vanaṃ pravrajite śūnye tyakto'smyahaṃ tvayā||

English Meaning

And coming to the foot of the funeral pyre for gathering the bones of the departed, he overcome with grief, with his throat obstructed with the sounds of lamentation, said, “my father, on brother Rāma, to whom I had been consigned by you, having gone to the forest, I have been cast by you into vacancy.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)