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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.15.9

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: at Daśaratha's ongoing putrīyā iṣṭi, a mighty being emerges from the fire: dark-bodied, red-clad, radiant like the sun and flame, with a voice like a drum

1.15.9

tato vai yajamānasya pāvakād atulaprabham
prādurbhūtaṃ mahad bhūtaṃ mahāvīryaṃ mahābalam

Then indeed, as he was sacrificing, there appeared from the fire a great being of incomparable radiance, of great valour and great strength —

Words: tato — then; vai — indeed; yajamānasya — of him sacrificing; pāvakād — from the fire; atulaprabham — of incomparable radiance; prādurbhūtaṃ — appeared, arose; mahad — great; bhūtaṃ — being; mahāvīryaṃ — of great valour; mahābalam — of great strength

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.