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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.13.31

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: all sixteen ṛtvijs offer the horse's remaining parts into the fire

1.13.31

hayasya yāni cāṅgāni tāni sarvāṇi brāhmaṇāḥ
agnau prāsyanti vidhivat samastāḥ ṣoḍaśartvijaḥ

And whatever limbs there were of the horse, all those the brahmins — all sixteen officiating priests together — cast duly into the fire.

Words: hayasya — of the horse; yāni — which; cāṅgāni — and the limbs; tāni — those; sarvāṇi — all; brāhmaṇāḥ — the brahmins; agnau — into the fire; prāsyanti — cast, throw; vidhivat — duly; samastāḥ — all together; ṣoḍaśartvijaḥ — the sixteen officiating priests

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.