Shloka 2.12.94
द्वादशः सर्गः — Kaikeyi’s Boons and Dasaratha’s Moral Collapse (Ayodhya Kanda 12)
हन्तानार्ये ममामित्रे सकामा भव कैकयि।।।।मृते मयि गते रामे वनं पुरुषपुङ्गवे।सेदानीं विधवा राज्यं सपुत्रा कारयिष्यसि।।।।
hantānārye mamāmitre sakāmā bhava kaikayi.
Alas, O ignoble one—O my enemy, Kaikeyī—may your desires indeed be fulfilled!
O my enemy, O wicked Kaikeyi, after Rama, the foremost of men, has left for the forest your desires will be fulfilled. And after my death, you as a widow along with your son will rule the kingdom.
The verse frames the tragedy of desire opposed to dharma: a wish may be ‘fulfilled’ yet still be adharma when it destroys rightful order and familial duty.
Daśaratha, shattered by Kaikeyī’s demands (Rāma’s exile and Bharata’s coronation), addresses her with bitter lament.
Daśaratha’s moral sensitivity: he recognizes the ethical ruin caused by wrongful desire, even as he is trapped by prior promises.