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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.61.27

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 61: Story of Viśvāmitra: Two verses save Śunaḥśepa. Śunaḥśepa seeks protection, Viśvāmitra curses his sons for refusing substitution and teaches two verses that preserve the boy’s life and fulfil the sacrifice

In the sequence: Viśvāmitra undertakes another thousand years of austerity at Puṣkara.

1.61.27

viśvāmitro 'pi dharmātmā bhūyas tepe mahātapāḥ
puṣkareṣu naraśreṣṭha daśavarṣaśatāni ca

And Viśvāmitra too, the righteous one of great austerity, practiced austerity once more at Puṣkara for another ten hundred years, O best of men.

Words: viśvāmitro — Viśvāmitra; 'pi — too, also; dharmātmā — the righteous one; bhūyas — again, further; tepe — practiced austerity; mahātapāḥ — of great austerity; puṣkareṣu — at Puṣkara (the Puṣkara lakes); naraśreṣṭha — O best of men; daśavarṣaśatāni — ten hundred years; ca — and

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.