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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.38.3

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: Rāma asks to hear how his ancestor's sacrifice proceeded

1.38.3

viśvāmitras tu kākutstham uvāca prahasann iva
śrūyatāṃ vistaro rāma sagarasya mahātmanaḥ

And Viśvāmitra, smiling a little, said to Kākutstha: “Let the full account of the great-souled Sagara be heard, O Rāma.

Words: viśvāmitras — Viśvāmitra; tu — and, but; kākutstham — to Kākutstha; uvāca — said; prahasann — smiling; iva — as it were, slightly; śrūyatāṃ — let it be heard; vistaro — the full account; rāma — O Rāma; sagarasya — of Sagara; mahātmanaḥ — the great-souled

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.