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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.13.11

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 13: Aśvamedha yajña: The horse’s return and completion of the rites. The returning horse is sacrificed with prescribed posts, a Garuḍa-shaped altar and continual hospitality, Daśaratha rewards the priests and requests the rite for sons

In the sequence: calls go out to distribute food and clothing → mountain-like heaps of cooked food appear day after day, and Daśaratha hears satisfied guests praising the meal and offering blessings

1.13.11

annakūṭāś ca bahavo dṛśyante parvatopamāḥ
divase divase tatra siddhasya vidhivat tadā

And many heaps of food, like mountains, were seen there day after day, of cooked fare duly prepared.

Words: annakūṭāś — heaps of food; ca — and; bahavo — many; dṛśyante — were seen; parvatopamāḥ — like mountains; divase divase — day after day; tatra — there; siddhasya — of cooked food, of what was prepared; vidhivat — duly; tadā — then

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.