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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.52.5

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: Śabalā produces sugarcane, sweet drinks and liquors, parched grain, steaming mountains of rice, broths, curds, sweets, and countless filled vessels → the entire army is satisfied, along with the King, his Queens, priests, ministers, and servants

1.52.5

sarvam āsīt susaṃtuṣṭaṃ hṛṣṭapuṣṭajanākulam
viśvāmitrabalaṃ rāma vasiṣṭhenābhitarpitam

Viśvāmitra's whole army, O Rāma, gratified by Vasiṣṭha, was thoroughly content and thronged with joyful, well-fed people.

Words: sarvam — all, whole; āsīt — was; susaṃtuṣṭaṃ — thoroughly content; hṛṣṭapuṣṭajanākulam — thronged with joyful and well-fed people; viśvāmitrabalaṃ — Viśvāmitra's army; rāma — O Rāma; vasiṣṭhenābhitarpitam — gratified by Vasiṣṭha

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.