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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.40.23

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: Aṃśumat returns and reports everything → Sagara completes the rite and returns to Ayodhyā, but cannot discover how to bring Gaṅgā down → after a reign of thirty thousand years, he dies.

1.40.23

tato rājānam āsādya dīkṣitaṃ raghunandana
nyavedayad yathāvṛttaṃ suparṇavacanaṃ tathā

Then, approaching the king, who was consecrated for the rite, O joy of the Raghus, he reported what had happened and likewise Suparṇa's word.

Words: tato — then; rājānam — the king; āsādya — having approached, reached; dīkṣitaṃ — consecrated (for the sacrifice); raghunandana — O joy of the Raghus; nyavedayad — reported, made known; yathāvṛttaṃ — what had happened, the events; suparṇavacanaṃ — Suparṇa's word; tathā — likewise, and so

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. 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.