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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.54.18

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 54: Story of Viśvāmitra: Defeat, Śiva’s weapons and retaliation. His army and sons are destroyed, Viśvāmitra wins Śiva’s weapons through austerity and returns to burn Vasiṣṭha’s hermitage

In the sequence: Śiva appears and offers a boon → Viśvāmitra asks for Dhanurveda (the science of archery), with its subsidiary disciplines and secrets, and the astras of Devas, dānavas, maharṣis, gandharvas, yakṣas and rākṣasas → Śiva grants the request and departs

1.54.18

tava prasādād bhavatu devadeva mamepsitam
evam astv iti deveśo vākyam uktvā divaṃ gataḥ

'By your grace, O god of gods, let my desire be fulfilled.' 'So be it,' said the lord of gods, and having spoken, went to heaven.

Words: tava — your; prasādād — by grace; bhavatu — let it be; devadeva — O god of gods; mamepsitam — my desire; evam astv — 'so be it'; iti — thus; deveśo — the lord of gods; vākyam — the word; uktvā — having spoken; divaṃ — to heaven; gataḥ — went

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.