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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.31.30

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 31: A throne or one more night. Daśaratha urges Rāma to take the Kingdom, then begs him to stay overnight, Rāma refuses to delay the promise

In the sequence: Rāma declines the delay and asks that Bharata receive the Kingdom without further grief

2.31.30

iyaṃ sarāṣṭrā sajanā dhanadhānyasamākulā
mayā visṛṣṭā vasudhā bharatāya pradīyatām

Let this earth, with its kingdom and its people, abounding in wealth and grain, be relinquished by me and bestowed upon Bharata.

Words: iyaṃ — this; sarāṣṭrā — with its kingdom; sajanā — with its people; dhanadhānyasamākulā — abounding in wealth and grain; mayā visṛṣṭā — relinquished by me; vasudhā — the earth; bharatāya — to Bharata; pradīyatām — let it be given

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.