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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.52.7

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

1.52.7

sāmātyo mantrisahitaḥ sabhṛtyaḥ pūjitas tadā
yuktaḥ pareṇa harṣeṇa vasiṣṭham idam abravīt

with his ministers, accompanied by his counsellors and his servants, being then honoured and filled with the highest joy, said this to Vasiṣṭha:

Words: sāmātyo — together with his ministers; mantrisahitaḥ — accompanied by his counsellors; sabhṛtyaḥ — with his servants; pūjitas — honoured; tadā — then; yuktaḥ — joined, filled with; pareṇa — supreme, highest; harṣeṇa — with joy; vasiṣṭham — to Vasiṣṭha; idam — this; abravīt — said

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.