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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.4.19
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 4: Śarabhaṅga’s ascent through fire. Indra departs before meeting Rāma, the ṛṣi receives him and rises young from the flames to Brahmā’s world
In the sequence: seeing Rāma coming, Indra tells the Devas that Rāma has a great deed still to accomplish and that he will meet him after its successful completion → Indra takes leave of Śarabhaṅga and returns to heaven before Rāma addresses him.
3.4.19
jitavantaṃ kṛtārthaṃ ca draṣṭāham acirād imam
karma hy anena kartavyaṃ mahad anyaiḥ suduṣkaram
I shall soon see him victorious and his purpose accomplished; for a great deed, one very hard for others to do, must be done by him.”
Words: jitavantaṃ — victorious; kṛtārthaṃ — his purpose accomplished; ca — and; draṣṭāham — I shall see; acirād — soon; imam — him; karma — deed; hy — for; anena — by him; kartavyaṃ — to be done; mahad — great; anyaiḥ — by others; suduṣkaram — very hard to do
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.