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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.15.18

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

1.15.18

bhāryāṇām anurūpāṇām aśnīteti prayaccha vai
tāsu tvaṃ lapsyase putrān yadarthaṃ yajase nṛpa

Give it to your suitable wives, saying ‘Eat’; in them you will gain the sons for whose sake you sacrifice, O king.”

Words: bhāryāṇām — to the wives; anurūpāṇām — suitable, fitting; aśnīteti — ‘eat,’ thus; prayaccha — give, bestow; vai — indeed; tāsu — in them; tvaṃ — you; lapsyase — will obtain; putrān — sons; yadarthaṃ — for whose sake; yajase — you sacrifice; nṛpa — O king

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.