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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.44.21

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 44: Guha welcomes Rāma at the Gaṅgā. Rāma declines food and beds, asks for fodder for the horses and sleeps on the ground with Sītā after taking water

In the sequence: he asks only that Daśaratha's horses be fed, and Guha immediately arranges it

2.44.21

aśvānāṃ khādanenāham arthī nānyena kena cit
etāvatātrabhavatā bhaviṣyāmi supūjitaḥ

'I have need only of fodder for the horses, of nothing else; by just this much from your honoured self I shall be well honoured.'

Words: aśvānāṃ — of the horses; khādanenāham — with fodder I; arthī — in need of, desirous; nānyena — not by any other; kena cit — anything; etāvatātrabhavatā — by just this much, by your honoured self; bhaviṣyāmi — I shall be, become; supūjitaḥ — well honoured

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.