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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.59.33

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 59: Story of Viśvāmitra: Triśaṅku’s ascent and suspended heaven. Indra rejects the ascending Triśaṅku, Viśvāmitra halts his fall and creates southern stars, the Devas agree to let him remain suspended among them

In the sequence: Viśvāmitra accepts → the sacrifice ends and the assembly disperses. ??

1.59.33

tato devā mahātmāno munayaś ca tapodhanāḥ
jagmur yathāgataṃ sarve yajñasyānte narottama

Then the great-souled gods and the sages, whose wealth was austerity, all went as they had come, at the end of the sacrifice, O best of men.

Words: tato — then; devā — the gods; mahātmāno — the great-souled; munayaś ca — and the sages; tapodhanāḥ — whose wealth is austerity; jagmur — went; yathāgataṃ — as they had come; sarve — all; yajñasyānte — at the end of the sacrifice; narottama — O best of men

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.