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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.41.10

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 41: Story of Sagara: Bhagīratha takes up the ancestral task. Aṃśumat & Dilīpa leave the ancestral task unfinished, Bhagīratha wins permission for Gaṅgā’s descent and learns that Śiva must receive her

In the sequence: after many sacrifices and thirty thousand years of rule, Dilīpa installs Bhagīratha and dies of illness, his purpose still unfulfilled. Bhagīratha too is childless

1.41.10

indralokaṃ gato rājā svārjitenaiva karmaṇā
ramye bhagīrathaṃ putram abhiṣicya nararṣabhaḥ

That bull among men, having consecrated his son Bhagīratha (to the throne), went, by his own well-earned deeds, to the lovely world of Indra.

Words: indralokaṃ — to the world of Indra; gato — went; rājā — the king; svārjitenaiva — by his very own earned (deeds); karmaṇā — by deed, action; ramye — lovely (loc.); bhagīrathaṃ — Bhagīratha; putram — son; abhiṣicya — having consecrated, anointed; nararṣabhaḥ — the bull among men

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.