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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.43.5
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 declares Gaṅgā Bhagīratha's eldest daughter, hence her name Bhāgīrathī → she is also Tripathagā because she sanctifies the three paths
1.43.5
iyaṃ ca duhitā jyeṣṭhā tava gaṅgā bhaviṣyati
tvatkṛtena ca nāmnā vai loke sthāsyati viśrutā
And this Gaṅgā will be your eldest daughter, and by a name derived from you she will remain renowned in the world.
Words: iyaṃ — this; ca — and; duhitā — daughter; jyeṣṭhā — eldest; tava — your; gaṅgā — Gaṅgā; bhaviṣyati — will be; tvatkṛtena — made by you, derived from you; ca — and; nāmnā — by a name; vai — indeed; loke — in the world; sthāsyati — will remain, stand; viśrutā — renowned, famed
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.