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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.70.15

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

2.70.15

hiraṇyaṃ ca suvarṇaṃ ca vāsāṃsi vividhāni ca
prakiranto janā mārgaṃ nṛpater agrato yayuḥ

Scattering silver and gold and garments of many kinds along the road, the people went ahead of the king.

Words: hiraṇyaṃ — silver, unwrought gold; ca — and; suvarṇaṃ — gold; ca — and; vāsāṃsi — garments; vividhāni — of many kinds; ca — and; prakiranto — scattering; janā — the people; mārgaṃ — along the road; nṛpater — of the king; agrato — in front, ahead; yayuḥ — went

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.