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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.42.19

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 42: Story of Sagara: Gaṅgā’s descent through Śiva’s hair. Śiva catches the falling river in his matted hair, Bhagīratha wins her release and leads the purifying waters across the earth

In the sequence: purified by contact with Śiva, the water is honored as sacred → beings cast down to earth by curses bathe, regain purity, and return to their heavenly homes → the world rejoices and is refreshed

1.42.19

dhūpapāpāḥ punas tena toyenātha subhāsvatā
punar ākāśam āviśya svāṃl lokān pratipedire

Their sins washed away by that bright, radiant water, they entered the sky once more and regained their own worlds.

Words: dhūpapāpāḥ — with sins washed away; punas — again; tena — by that; toyenātha — by the water, then; subhāsvatā — bright, very radiant; punar — again; ākāśam — the sky; āviśya — having entered; svāṃl — their own; lokān — worlds; pratipedire — regained, attained

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.