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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.43.16

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

1.43.16

ity evam uktvā deveśaḥ sarvalokapitāmahaḥ
yathāgataṃ tathāgacchad devalokaṃ mahāyaśāḥ

Having spoken thus, the lord of the gods, the Grandsire of all the worlds, of great renown, went back to the world of the gods just as he had come.

Words: ity — thus; evam — so, thus; uktvā — having spoken; deveśaḥ — the lord of the gods; sarvalokapitāmahaḥ — the Grandsire of all worlds; yathāgataṃ — as he had come; tathāgacchad — so he went; devalokaṃ — to the world of the gods; mahāyaśāḥ — of great renown

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.