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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.52.19

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

1.52.19

hayānāṃ deśajātānāṃ kulajānāṃ mahaujasām
sahasram ekaṃ daśa ca dadāmi tava suvrata

'And of horses born in fine lands, of noble breed and great vigour, I will give you eleven thousand, O you of firm vows.'

Words: hayānāṃ — of horses; deśajātānāṃ — born in (fine) countries; kulajānāṃ — of noble breed; mahaujasām — of great vigour; sahasram — thousand; ekaṃ — one; daśa — ten; ca — and; dadāmi — I give; tava — to you; suvrata — O you of firm vows

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.