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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.43.3
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
1.43.3
tāritā naraśārdūla divaṃ yātāś ca devavat
ṣaṣṭiḥ putrasahasrāṇi sagarasya mahātmanaḥ
“They have been delivered, O tiger among men, and have gone to heaven like gods — the sixty thousand sons of the great-souled Sagara.
Words: tāritā — delivered, carried across; naraśārdūla — O tiger among men; divaṃ — to heaven; yātāś — gone; ca — and; devavat — like gods; ṣaṣṭiḥ — sixty; putrasahasrāṇi — thousands of sons; sagarasya — of Sagara; mahātmanaḥ — the great-souled
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.