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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.43.2

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: her waters cover them → Brahmā announces that all sixty thousand have reached heaven and will remain there while the ocean endures

1.43.2

bhasmany athāplute rāma gaṅgāyāḥ salilena vai
sarva lokaprabhur brahmā rājānam idam abravīt

When the ashes had been flooded, O Rāma, with the water of Gaṅgā, Brahmā, lord of all worlds, said this to the king:

Words: bhasmany — the ashes (loc.); athāplute — when, then, (they were) flooded; rāma — O Rāma; gaṅgāyāḥ — of Gaṅgā; salilena — with the water; vai — indeed; sarva — of all; lokaprabhur — lord of the worlds; brahmā — Brahmā; rājānam — to the king; idam — this; abravīt — said

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.