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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.60.1

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 60: Daśaratha’s body preserved in oil. Kausalyā blames Kaikeyī, the ministers place the body in an oil trough and await a son before cremation

In the sequence: Kausalyā holds Daśaratha's head and bitterly tells Kaikeyī that she now has the unopposed Kingdom she wanted

2.60.1

tam agnim iva saṃśāntam ambuhīnam ivārṇavam
hataprabham ivādityaṃ svargathaṃ prekṣya bhūmipam

Beholding the lord of the earth gone to heaven — like a fire burnt out, like an ocean drained of water, like the sun robbed of its splendor —

Words: tam — him; agnim iva — like a fire; saṃśāntam — extinguished, gone out; ambuhīnam — without water; ivārṇavam — like an ocean; hataprabham — with its radiance destroyed; ivādityaṃ — like the sun; svargathaṃ — gone to heaven; prekṣya — having beheld; bhūmipam — the lord of the earth

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.