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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.43.15

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: he instructs Bhagīratha to bathe and make the offerings, then departs

1.43.15

pitāmahānāṃ sarveṣāṃ kuruṣva salilakriyām
svasti te 'stu gamiṣyāmi svaṃ lokaṃ gamyatāṃ nṛpa

Perform the water-rite for all your forefathers. May it be well with you — I shall go to my own world; go now, O king.”

Words: pitāmahānāṃ — of the forefathers; sarveṣāṃ — of all; kuruṣva — perform; salilakriyām — the water-rite; svasti — well-being, blessing; te — to you; 'stu — let it be; gamiṣyāmi — I shall go; svaṃ — (my) own; lokaṃ — world; gamyatāṃ — let (you) depart, one may go; nṛpa — O king

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.