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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.58.37

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 58: The curse and Daśaratha’s death. The youth’s father condemns him to die grieving for a son, Daśaratha recalls the curse and dies calling for Rāma

In the sequence: the father declared that they would soon follow their son and prayed for his blessed destination

2.58.37

yā gatiḥ sarvasādhūnāṃ svādhyāyāt patasaś ca yā
bhūmidasyāhitāgneś ca ekapatnīvratasya ca

'The goal that belongs to all the virtuous, and that which comes from Vedic study and austerity, and that of the giver of land, of him who keeps the sacred fire, and of him vowed to a single wife;'

Words: yā — which; gatiḥ — goal; sarvasādhūnāṃ — of all the good; svādhyāyāt — from Vedic study; patasaś — and of austerity [app. for tapasaḥ]; ca — and; yā — which; bhūmidasyāhitāgneś — of the land-giver and the fire-keeper; ca — and; ekapatnīvratasya — of one vowed to a single wife; ca — and

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.