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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.26

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 95: Rāma’s offerings for Daśaratha. Hearing of his death, Rāma collapses, then offers Mandākinī water and iṅgudī paste with jujube as his own forest fare

In the sequence: supported by Sumantra, he goes down to the Mandākinī and, facing south, offers water to his father

2.95.26

śīghrasrotasam āsādya tīrthaṃ śivam akardamam
siṣicus tūdakaṃ rājñe tata etad bhavatv iti

— reaching its swift current at an auspicious, mud-free ford, poured out the water for the king, saying, “Let this reach him.”

Words: śīghrasrotasam — the swift-streamed; āsādya — having reached; tīrthaṃ — a ford; śivam — auspicious; akardamam — free of mud; siṣicus — poured; tūdakaṃ — and the water; rājñe — for the king; tata — then; etad — this; bhavatv — let it reach, be; iti — thus

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.