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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.37.15

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 37: Story of Sagara: One heir and sixty thousand sons. Sagara’s wives choose one dynastic heir or sixty thousand sons, the many grow in ghee-filled pots while Asamañja is banished for killing children

In the sequence: the family returns to Ayodhyā. Keśinī gives birth to Asamañja

1.37.15

pradakṣiṇam ṛṣiṃ kṛtvā śirasābhipraṇamya ca
jagāma svapuraṃ rājā sabhāryā raghunandana

Having circumambulated the seer and bowed to him with his head, the king went to his own city with his wives, O joy of the Raghus.

Words: pradakṣiṇam — circumambulation (keeping him to the right); ṛṣiṃ — the seer; kṛtvā — having made; śirasābhipraṇamya — bowing with his head; ca — and; jagāma — went; svapuraṃ — to his own city; rājā — the king; sabhāryā — with his wives; raghunandana — O joy of the Raghus

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.