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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.60.10

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 60: Story of Viśvāmitra: Śunaḥśepa is bought for sacrifice. Indra steals Ambarīṣa’s sacrificial victim, the King purchases Śunaḥśepa after the boy’s parents reserve their eldest and youngest sons

In the sequence: Ambarīṣa searches widely, offering thousands of cows, until he finds Ṛcīka at Bhṛgutunda with his wife and sons

1.60.10

deśāñ janapadāṃs tāṃs tān nagarāṇi vanāni ca
āśramāṇi ca puṇyāni mārgamāṇo mahīpatiḥ

searching through region after region, provinces, cities, forests, and holy hermitages, the lord of the earth—

Words: deśāñ — regions; janapadāṃs — provinces, countries; tāṃs tān — those various; nagarāṇi — cities; vanāni ca — and forests; āśramāṇi ca — and hermitages; puṇyāni — holy; mārgamāṇo — searching; mahīpatiḥ — the lord of the earth

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.