Shloka 2.12.72
द्वादशः सर्गः — Kaikeyi’s Boons and Dasaratha’s Moral Collapse (Ayodhya Kanda 12)
कृपणं बत वैदेही श्रोष्यति द्वयमप्रियम्।।।।मां च पञ्चत्वमापन्नं रामं च वनमाश्रितम्।
vaidehī bata me prāṇān śocantī kṣapayiṣyati,
hīnā himavataḥ pārśve kinnareneva kinnarī.
Alas, Vaidehī, consumed by sorrow, will waste away my very life—like a kinnarī on Himavat’s slopes, bereft of her kinnara.
Alas Sita will listen in a pitiable state the two unpleasant events namely my death and Rama's exile to the foest.
Dharma recognizes relational duty: the suffering of the virtuous spouse (Sītā) becomes a moral indictment of the causes that separate families. The verse stresses the ethical weight of actions that create unjust separation.
Daśaratha imagines Sītā’s grief at Rāma’s exile and fears that her sorrow will hasten his own death.
Sītā’s deep fidelity and emotional unity with Rāma—her inability to bear separation is presented as an intense form of devoted virtue.