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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.60.2
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: Viśvāmitra tells the departing ṛṣis that the southern region has become a place of obstruction → he moves west to Puṣkara and resumes austerity on roots and fruit
1.60.2
mahāvighnaḥ pravṛtto 'yaṃ dakṣiṇām āsthito diśam
diśam anyāṃ prapatsyāmas tatra tapsyāmahe tapaḥ
'A great obstacle has arisen here, seated in the southern quarter; we shall betake ourselves to another quarter, and there practise austerity.'
Words: mahāvighnaḥ — a great obstacle; pravṛtto — has arisen; 'yaṃ — this; dakṣiṇām — the southern; āsthito — seated in, occupying; diśam — direction, quarter; diśam anyāṃ — to another quarter; prapatsyāmas — we shall betake ourselves; tatra — there; tapsyāmahe — we shall practise (austerity); tapaḥ — austerity
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.