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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.17.26

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 17: Birth and upbringing of the princes; Viśvāmitra’s arrival. Daśaratha’s four sons are born and grow devoted in pairs, Viśvāmitra arrives and receives the King’s promise to fulfil his request

In the sequence: The mahāmuni Viśvāmitra arrives and asks the gatekeepers to announce the son of Gādhi, of Kuśika's line

1.17.26

te gatvā rājabhavanaṃ viśvāmitram ṛṣiṃ tadā
prāptam āvedayām āsur nṛpāyekṣvākave tadā

Going to the royal palace, they then announced to the Ikṣvāku king that the seer Viśvāmitra had arrived.

Words: te — they; gatvā — having gone; rājabhavanaṃ — to the royal palace; viśvāmitram — Viśvāmitra; ṛṣiṃ — the seer; tadā — then; prāptam — arrived; āvedayām āsur — announced, made known; nṛpāyekṣvākave — to the Ikṣvāku king; tadā — then

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.