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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.15.19

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: the delighted King receives the vessel on his head, bows, and circles the messenger reverently → the messenger vanishes after completing his task. Daśaratha enters the joyful inner apartments and offers the pāyasa to Kausalyā

1.15.19

tatheti nṛpatiḥ prītaḥ śirasā pratigṛhyatām
pātrīṃ devānnasaṃpūrṇāṃ devadattāṃ hiraṇmayīm

“So be it,” said the delighted king, and he received upon his head the golden vessel, filled with the food of the gods and given by the god.

Words: tatheti — ‘so be it’; nṛpatiḥ — the king; prītaḥ — delighted; śirasā — with the head; pratigṛhyatām — received (lit. let it be received); pātrīṃ — the vessel; devānnasaṃpūrṇāṃ — filled with the food of the gods; devadattāṃ — given by the god; hiraṇmayīm — golden

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.