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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.74.22

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 74: Paraśurāma: The two divine bows and the challenge. Paraśurāma ignores Daśaratha’s plea, recounts the rival divine bows and his vengeance, and challenges Rāma to string Viṣṇu’s bow

In the sequence: Śiva entrusted his bow to Devarāta → Viṣṇu entrusted the other to Ṛcīka, who passed it to Jamadagni, Paraśurāma's father

1.74.22

ṛcīkas tu mahātejāḥ putrasyāpratikarmaṇaḥ
pitur mama dadau divyaṃ jamadagner mahātmanaḥ

And Ṛcīka of great splendour gave that divine (bow) to his son of matchless deeds, my father, the great-souled Jamadagni.

Words: ṛcīkas — Ṛcīka; tu — and; mahātejāḥ — of great splendour; putrasyāpratikarmaṇaḥ — to his son of matchless deeds; pitur — father; mama — my; dadau — gave; divyaṃ — the divine (bow); jamadagner — to Jamadagni; mahātmanaḥ — the great-souled

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.