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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.60.14

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: he offers a hundred thousand cows for one son

1.60.14

sarve parisṛtā deśā yajñiyaṃ na labhe paśum
dātum arhasi mūlyena sutam ekam ito mama

'All the regions have been traversed; I do not obtain a victim fit for sacrifice; you ought to give me, for a price, one son from here.'

Words: sarve — all; parisṛtā — traversed, wandered over; deśā — the regions; yajñiyaṃ — fit for sacrifice, sacrificial; na labhe — I do not obtain; paśum — a victim; dātum arhasi — you ought to give; mūlyena — for a price; sutam ekaṃ — one son; ito — from here; mama — to me

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.