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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.52.13

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 52: Story of Viśvāmitra: Śabalā’s feast and the rejected purchase. Śabalā feeds the entire company, Viśvāmitra offers escalating wealth to purchase her and Vasiṣṭha refuses to surrender the source of his ritual sustenance

In the sequence: Vasiṣṭha refuses any price, explaining that she sustains his life, havya (offerings to Devas), kavya (offerings to pitṛs), agnihotra, bali, homa and sacred learning

1.52.13

asyāṃ havyaṃ ca kavyaṃ ca prāṇayātrā tathaiva ca
āyattam agnihotraṃ ca balir homas tathaiva ca

'On her depend the offering to the gods and the offering to the ancestors, and likewise the sustaining of life, the fire-oblation, the bali-offering and the homa as well;'

Words: asyāṃ — on her, in her; havyaṃ ca — and the offering to the gods; kavyaṃ ca — and the offering to the ancestors; prāṇayātrā — the sustaining of life; tathaiva ca — and likewise too; āyattam — (they) rest, depend (upon); agnihotraṃ ca — and the fire-offering; balir — the bali-offering; homas — the homa (oblation); tathaiva ca — and likewise too

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.