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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.15.17
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
1.15.17
idaṃ tu naraśārdūla pāyasaṃ devanirmitam
prajākaraṃ gṛhāṇa tvaṃ dhanyam ārogyavardhanam
Take this pāyasa, O tiger among men, fashioned by the gods, offspring-producing, blessed, and health-increasing.
Words: idaṃ — this; tu — indeed; naraśārdūla — O tiger among men; pāyasaṃ — pāyasa (milk-rice); devanirmitam — fashioned by the gods; prajākaraṃ — offspring-producing; gṛhāṇa — take, receive; tvaṃ — you; dhanyam — blessed, fortunate; ārogyavardhanam — health-increasing
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.