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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.74.8

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: Daśaratha begs him to spare his sons, reminding him that he had laid down arms, given the earth to Kaśyapa, and retired to Mahendra → he says none of the family can live if Rāma is killed

1.74.8

sa tvaṃ dharmaparo bhūtvā kāśyapāya vasuṃdharām
dattvā vanam upāgamya mahendrakṛtaketanaḥ

You, having become devoted to dharma, gave the earth to Kāśyapa, and retiring to the forest, made your dwelling on Mount Mahendra —

Words: sa tvaṃ — you (that same one); dharmaparo — devoted to dharma; bhūtvā — having become; kāśyapāya — to Kāśyapa; vasuṃdharām — the earth; dattvā — having given; vanam — to the forest; upāgamya — having retired, gone; mahendrakṛtaketanaḥ — who made his abode on Mahendra

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.