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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.74.25

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: Paraśurāma recounts that Arjuna brought about the death of his father after he had laid down his weapons → in vengeance he repeatedly destroyed the kṣatriyas, conquered the earth, and gave it to Kaśyapa as a sacrificial fee

1.74.25

pṛthivīṃ cākhilāṃ prāpya kāśyapāya mahātmane
yajñasyānte tadā rāma dakṣiṇāṃ puṇyakarmaṇe

And having won the entire earth, I gave it, O Rāma, at the end of a sacrifice, to the great-souled Kāśyapa of holy deeds, as his sacrificial fee —

Words: pṛthivīṃ — the earth; cākhilāṃ — and the entire; prāpya — having won, obtained; kāśyapāya — to Kāśyapa; mahātmane — the great-souled; yajñasyānte — at the end of the sacrifice; tadā — then; rāma — O Rāma; dakṣiṇāṃ — as a sacrificial fee; puṇyakarmaṇe — of holy deeds

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.