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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.39.24

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: digging northeast, they find Kapila with the horse grazing nearby

1.39.24

dadṛśuḥ kapilaṃ tatra vāsudevaṃ sanātanam
hayaṃ ca tasya devasya carantam avidūrataḥ

There they beheld Kapila, the eternal Vāsudeva, and that god's horse grazing not far off.

Words: dadṛśuḥ — they beheld; kapilaṃ — Kapila; tatra — there; vāsudevaṃ — Vāsudeva; sanātanam — eternal, from of old; hayaṃ — the horse; ca — and; tasya — of that; devasya — of the god; carantam — grazing, moving about; avidūrataḥ — not far off

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.