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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.13.16

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: during pauses in the ritual, eloquent scholars debate, seeking to outdo one another → the officiants continue each day's rites, all versed in the six Vedāṅgas, their vows, and learned disputation. The sacrificial posts are prepared from prescribed woods, including six of bilva and six of khadira, further palāśa posts, and posts of śleṣmātaka and devadāru

1.13.16

nāṣaḍaṅgavid atrāsīn nāvrato nābahuśrutaḥ
sadasyas tasya vai rājño nāvādakuśalo dvijaḥ

Here there was none ignorant of the six Vedāṅgas, none without vows, none not deeply learned; no member of that king's assembly was a brahmin unskilled in disputation.

Words: nāṣaḍaṅgavid — not one ignorant of the six Vedāṅgas; atrāsīn — there was here; nāvrato — nor one without vows; nābahuśrutaḥ — nor one not deeply learned; sadasyas — member of the assembly; tasya — of that; vai — indeed; rājño — king; nāvādakuśalo — nor one unskilled in disputation; dvijaḥ — brahmin

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.