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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.43.11

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 43: Story of Sagara: Gaṅgā redeems the sixty thousand. The waters cover the sixty thousand’s ashes and raise them to heaven, Brahmā names Gaṅgā Bhāgīrathī & Tripathagā and Bhagīratha completes the ancestral rites

In the sequence: Brahmā asks the King to complete the pitṛtarpaṇa (water-offerings to the pitṛs) and praises him for accomplishing what Sagara, Aṃśumat, and Dilīpa could not

1.43.11

dilīpena mahābhāga tava pitrātitejasā
punar na śaṅkitā netuṃ gaṅgāṃ prārthayatānagha

— by Dilīpa, O illustrious one, your father of surpassing splendour: even he, though he longed to bring Gaṅgā down, ventured it no more, O sinless one.

Words: dilīpena — by Dilīpa; mahābhāga — O illustrious one; tava — your; pitrātitejasā — by (your) father of surpassing splendour; punar — again; na — not; śaṅkitā — was able / ventured; netuṃ — to bring, lead down; gaṅgāṃ — Gaṅgā; prārthayatānagha — though longing, O sinless one

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.