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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.6.3

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 6: Worship before the abhiṣeka. Rāma worships Nārāyaṇa with Sītā, offers havis and eats its remainder, they sleep on kuśa as Ayodhyā celebrates

In the sequence: Rāma bathes, worships Nārāyaṇa with Sītā, makes an āhuti (oblation) into Agni, eats the remaining havis, and lies with her on a grass bed in Viṣṇu's shrine

2.6.3

śeṣaṃ ca haviṣas tasya prāśyāśāsyātmanaḥ priyam
dhyāyan nārāyaṇaṃ devaṃ svāstīrṇe kuśasaṃstare

And having eaten the remainder of that oblation and prayed for what was dear to himself, meditating on the god Nārāyaṇa, on a well-spread bed of kuśa grass,

Words: śeṣaṃ — the remainder; ca — and; haviṣas — of the oblation; tasya — that; prāśyāśāsyātmanaḥ — having eaten and prayed for, of himself; priyam — what is dear; dhyāyan — meditating on; nārāyaṇaṃ — Nārāyaṇa; devaṃ — god; svāstīrṇe — on the well-spread; kuśasaṃstare — bed of kuśa grass

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.