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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.39.10

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 39: Story of Sagara: Kapila’s anger and the sons’ destruction. The sons pass the elephants supporting the earth and find the horse beside Kapila, they accuse him of theft and his “huṃ” reduces them to ashes

In the sequence: after searching and digging without finding the horse, the sons return to Sagara → he angrily sends them back to dig farther

1.39.10

bhūyaḥ khanata bhadraṃ vo nirbhidya vasudhātalam
aśvahartāram āsādya kṛtārthāś ca nivartatha

“Dig again — blessings on you — breaking through the surface of the earth; and having found the horse-thief and gained your object, return.”

Words: bhūyaḥ — again, further; khanata — dig (pl.); bhadraṃ — welfare, blessing; vo — to you (pl.); nirbhidya — having broken through; vasudhātalam — the surface of the earth; aśvahartāram — the horse-thief; āsādya — having found, reached; kṛtārthāś — having accomplished your aim; ca — and; nivartatha — return (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.