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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.52.16

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: Viśvāmitra raises the offer to fourteen thousand richly equipped elephants, eight hundred golden chariots, eleven thousand fine horses, and a crore of cows

1.52.16

vasiṣṭhenaivam uktas tu viśvāmitro 'bravīt tataḥ
saṃrabdhataram atyarthaṃ vākyaṃ vākyaviśāradaḥ

Thus addressed by Vasiṣṭha, Viśvāmitra, skilled in speech, then spoke a word yet more agitated and vehement:

Words: vasiṣṭhenaivam — by Vasiṣṭha thus; uktas — addressed; tu — but; viśvāmitro — Viśvāmitra; 'bravīt — said; tataḥ — then; saṃrabdhataram — more agitated, more heated; atyarthaṃ — exceedingly; vākyaṃ — a word; vākyaviśāradaḥ — skilled in speech

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.