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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.37.21

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: Asamañja terrorizes the citizens by throwing children into the Sarayū and laughing as they drown → Sagara banishes him

1.37.21

paurāṇām ahite yuktaḥ pitrā nirvāsitaḥ purāt

Bent on harm to the citizens, he was banished from the city by his father.

Words: paurāṇām — of the citizens, townsfolk; ahite — in harm, mischief; yuktaḥ — engaged, intent; pitrā — by his father; nirvāsitaḥ — banished, exiled; purāt — from the city

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.