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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.62
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 10: Ten years among the hermitages. Māṇḍakarṇi’s lake music is explained, years of visits lead toward Agastya, Rāma recounts his digestion of Vātāpi
In the sequence: when Ilvala called his brother, Agastya explained that Vātāpi was dead and could not emerge
3.10.62
kuto niṣkramituṃ śaktir mayā jīrṇasya rakṣasaḥ
bhrātus te meṣa rūpasya gatasya yamasādanam
“Whence should there be power to come forth for the rakṣasa I have digested — your ram-shaped brother, gone to the abode of Yama?”
Words: kuto — whence; niṣkramituṃ — to come forth; śaktir — power, ability; mayā — by me; jīrṇasya — of the digested; rakṣasaḥ — of the rakṣasa; bhrātus — of the brother; te — your; meṣa — of ram; rūpasya — of the form; gatasya — gone; yamasādanam — to the abode of Yama
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.