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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.15.16

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 15: Daśaratha receives and divides the divine pāyasa. Viṣṇu chooses Daśaratha as his father, a being emerges from the fire with divine pāyasa and the King distributes it among his wives

In the sequence: Daśaratha welcomes him → the messenger tells him to give this divinely prepared, offspring-producing food to his wives

1.15.16

atho punar idaṃ vākyaṃ prājāpatyo naro 'bravīt
rājann arcayatā devān adya prāptam idaṃ tvayā

Then again the man of Prajāpati spoke this word: “O king, by you who worship the gods, this has now been obtained.

Words: atho — then, thereupon; punar — again; idaṃ — this; vākyaṃ — word; prājāpatyo — of Prajāpati; naro — the man; 'bravīt — spoke; rājann — O king; arcayatā — by (you) worshipping; devān — the gods; adya — today, now; prāptam — obtained; idaṃ — this; tvayā — by you

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.