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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.38.13

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 38: Story of Sagara: The stolen horse and the earth’s excavation. Indra steals the sacrificial horse, Sagara sends his sixty thousand sons to dig for it and the devastation drives the earth’s inhabitants to Brahmā

In the sequence: Sagara orders his sixty thousand sons to search the entire earth, each covering a yojana-wide tract and digging until the horse and thief are found → he remains consecrated at the sacrifice with Aṃśumat and the priests

1.38.13

tad gacchata vicinvadhvaṃ putrakā bhadram astu vaḥ
samudramālinīṃ sarvāṃ pṛthivīm anugacchata

So go and search, my dear boys — blessings upon you; traverse the whole earth, girdled by the ocean.

Words: tad — so, therefore; gacchata — go (pl.); vicinvadhvaṃ — search, seek out (pl.); putrakā — O little sons, dear boys; bhadram — welfare, blessing; astu — let it be; vaḥ — to you (pl.); samudramālinīṃ — girdled by the ocean; sarvāṃ — whole, entire; pṛthivīm — the earth; anugacchata — range over, traverse (pl.)

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.