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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.11.21

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.

1.11.21

gatānāṃ tu dvijātīnāṃ mantriṇas tān narādhipaḥ
visarjayitvā svaṃ veśma praviveśa mahā dyutiḥ

When the brahmins had gone, the king of great splendour dismissed those ministers and entered his own dwelling.

Words: gatānāṃ — having gone; tu — and; dvijātīnāṃ — of the brahmins; mantriṇas — the ministers; tān — those; narādhipaḥ — the king; visarjayitvā — having dismissed; svaṃ — his own; veśma — dwelling, house; praviveśa — entered; mahā — great; dyutiḥ — of splendour

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. 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.