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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.11.20

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 11: Aśvamedha yajña: Release of the horse and preparations. Ṛṣyaśṛṅga orders the horse released, Daśaratha commissions the sacrificial ground on the Sarayū’s northern bank and warns that ritual errors endanger the patron

In the sequence: he warns that learned brahma-rākṣasas seek ritual faults and that a flawed sacrifice endangers its patron → the ministers agree to arrange everything correctly, and the assembly disperses.

1.11.20

tato dvijās te dharmajñam astuvan pārthivarṣabham
anujñātās tataḥ sarve punar jagmur yathāgatam

Then those brahmins praised that dharma-knowing bull among kings; and, given leave, they all went back the way they had come.

Words: tato — then; dvijās — the brahmins; te — those; dharmajñam — the knower of dharma; astuvan — praised; pārthivarṣabham — the bull among kings; anujñātās — given leave; tataḥ — then; sarve — all; punar — again, back; jagmur — went; yathāgatam — the way they had come

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.