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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.63.10

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 63: Bharata’s ominous dream. Daśaratha falls into filth and oil and travels south in a donkey-drawn chariot, Bharata wakes fearing a family death

In the sequence: he saw his father dirty and disheveled, falling into filth, drinking oil, eating sesame rice, and sinking into oil

2.63.10

tatas tilodanaṃ bhuktvā punaḥ punar adhaḥśirāḥ
tailenābhyaktasarvāṅgas tailam evāvagāhata

Then, having eaten sesame-rice again and again with his head hanging down, all his limbs smeared with oil, he plunged into the very oil.

Words: tatas — then; tilodanaṃ — sesame-rice; bhuktvā — having eaten; punaḥ punar — again and again; adhaḥśirāḥ — head hanging down; tailenābhyaktasarvāṅgas — all his limbs smeared with oil; tailam — oil; evāvagāhata — plunged into indeed

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.