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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.40.12

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 40: Story of Sagara: Aṃśumat retrieves the horse. Aṃśumat recovers the horse and finds his uncles’ ashes, Garuḍa says only Gaṅgā can redeem them, Sagara completes the sacrifice but cannot bring her down

In the sequence: he finds the ashes of his relatives and weeps → seeing the horse nearby, he seeks water for their funeral offering but finds none

1.40.12

teṣāṃ tad vacanaṃ śrutvā jagāma laghuvikramaḥ
bhasmarāśīkṛtā yatra pitaras tasya sāgarāḥ

Hearing that word of theirs, the nimble-strided one went to where his forefathers, the sons of Sagara, had been reduced to a heap of ashes.

Words: teṣāṃ — of them, their; tad — that; vacanaṃ — word; śrutvā — having heard; jagāma — went; laghuvikramaḥ — swift of stride; bhasmarāśīkṛtā — reduced to a heap of ashes; yatra — where; pitaras — the forefathers; tasya — his; sāgarāḥ — the sons of Sagara

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.