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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.31

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

2.95.31

idaṃ bhuṅkṣva mahārājaprīto yad aśanā vayam
yadannaḥ puruṣo bhavati tadannās tasya devatāḥ

“Eat this, O great king, well pleased — the very food on which we ourselves feed. For whatever food a man eats, on that same food do his deities feed.”

Words: idaṃ — this; bhuṅkṣva — eat; mahārājaprīto — O great king, being pleased; yad — which; aśanā — as food (we whose food it is); vayam — we; yadannaḥ — having whatever food; puruṣo — a man; bhavati — is, becomes; tadannās — having that food; tasya — his; devatāḥ — deities

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.