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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.70.14

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 70: Daśaratha’s cremation. The body is lifted from oil and carried to a fragrant-wood pyre, the family offers water in the Sarayū and begins ten days of mourning

In the sequence: attendants bear the body out as wealth and garments are distributed along the road → a pyre is built from fragrant woods

2.70.14

śibilāyām athāropya rājānaṃ gatacetanam
bāṣpakaṇṭhā vimanasas tam ūhuḥ paricārakāḥ

Then, having lifted the lifeless king onto a bier, the attendants, their throats choked with tears and downcast, bore him.

Words: śibilāyām — onto the bier; athāropya — then having lifted up; rājānaṃ — the king; gatacetanam — lifeless, his consciousness gone; bāṣpakaṇṭhā — their throats choked with tears; vimanasas — downcast, dejected; tam — him; ūhuḥ — bore, carried; paricārakāḥ — the attendants

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.