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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.63.9
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
2.63.9
plavamānaś ca me dṛṣṭaḥ sa tasmin gomayahrade
pibann añjalinā tailaṃ hasann iva muhur muhuḥ
And I saw him floating in that pool of cow-dung, drinking oil from his cupped hands, laughing as it were again and again.
Words: plavamānaś — floating, bobbing; ca — and; me — by me; dṛṣṭaḥ — was seen; sa — he; tasmin — in that; gomayahrade — pool of cow-dung; pibann — drinking; añjalinā — with cupped hands; tailaṃ — oil, sesame oil; hasann — laughing; iva — as if; muhur muhuḥ — again and again
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.