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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.26.4

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 26: Divine weapons: Viśvāmitra grants the powers. Viśvāmitra teaches the weapon-mantras, the powers appear and offer service, Rāma asks them to answer whenever summoned

In the sequence: he names the discuses of Daṇḍa, Dharma, Kāla, Viṣṇu, and Indra; the thunderbolt, Śiva's trident, Brahmaśiras, Aiṣīka, and the Brahmāstra

1.26.4

tāni divyāni bhadraṃ te dadāmy astrāṇi sarvaśaḥ
daṇḍacakraṃ mahad divyaṃ tava dāsyāmi rāghava

Those divine weapons — blessings on you — I give you all of them. The great divine Daṇḍa discus I shall give you, O Rāghava,

Words: tāni — those; divyāni — divine; bhadraṃ — a blessing; te — to you; dadāmy — I give; astrāṇi — weapons; sarvaśaḥ — all; daṇḍacakraṃ — the Daṇḍa (staff) discus; mahad — great; divyaṃ — divine; tava — to you; dāsyāmi — I shall give; rāghava — O Rāghava

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.