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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.65.24

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 65: Story of Sītā & Śiva’s bow: Birth, suitors and Janaka’s condition. Janaka recounts Sītā’s birth, Śiva’s bow and the suitors’ failure, offering her hand to Rāma if he can string it

In the sequence: he won the Devas' favor through austerity and received a fourfold army → the defeated besiegers fled

1.65.24

tato devagaṇān sarvāṃs tapasāhaṃ prasādayam
daduś ca paramaprītāś caturaṅgabalaṃ surāḥ

Then I propitiated all the hosts of gods by austerity, and the gods, greatly pleased, gave me a four-membered army.

Words: tato — then; devagaṇān — the hosts of gods; sarvāṃs — all; tapasāhaṃ — I by austerity; prasādayam — propitiated; daduś ca — and they gave; paramaprītāś — greatly pleased; caturaṅgabalaṃ — a four-membered army; surāḥ — the gods

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.