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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.43.18
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: Bhagīratha performs the rites, returns purified to his capital, and rules to the people's joy
1.43.18
samṛddhārtho naraśreṣṭha svarājyaṃ praśaśāsa ha
pramumoda ca lokas taṃ nṛpam āsādya rāghava
naṣṭaśokaḥ samṛddhārtho babhūva vigatajvaraḥ
His purpose fulfilled, O best of men, he ruled his own kingdom; and the world rejoiced on gaining him as king, O Rāghava — its grief gone, its aims fulfilled, its distress dispelled.
Words: samṛddhārtho — his purpose fulfilled; naraśreṣṭha — O best of men; svarājyaṃ — his own kingdom; praśaśāsa — ruled, governed; ha — indeed; pramumoda — rejoiced, was delighted; ca — and; lokas — the world; taṃ — him; nṛpam — as king; āsādya — having gained, obtained; rāghava — O Rāghava; naṣṭaśokaḥ — its grief destroyed; samṛddhārtho — its aims fulfilled; babhūva — became; vigatajvaraḥ — its distress/fever dispelled
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.