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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.30

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: he lays out a nivāpa (food offering for the deceased) of iṅgudī paste mixed with jujube on darbha grass, explaining that he offers the food on which he himself now lives → the brothers return to the hut and embrace

2.95.30

aiṅgudaṃ badarīmiśraṃ piṇyākaṃ darbhasaṃstare
nyasya rāmaḥ suduḥkhārto rudan vacanam abravīt

Placing on a spread of darbha grass the ingudi-paste mixed with jujube, Rāma, sorely afflicted, wept and spoke these words:

Words: aiṅgudaṃ — made of ingudi; badarīmiśraṃ — mixed with jujube; piṇyākaṃ — the oil-cake, paste; darbhasaṃstare — on a spread of darbha grass; nyasya — having placed; rāmaḥ — Rāma; suduḥkhārto — sorely afflicted; rudan — weeping; vacanam — words; abravīt — spoke

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.