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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.4.34
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: the muni kindles a fire, offers ghee, and enters it → his old body burns, and he rises from the flames in a youthful form
3.4.34
sa ca pāvakasaṃkāśaḥ kumāraḥ samapadyata
utthāyāgnicayāt tasmāc charabhaṅgo vyarocata
And he became a youth resembling fire; rising up from that heap of fire, Śarabhaṅga shone forth.
Words: sa — he; ca — and; pāvakasaṃkāśaḥ — resembling fire; kumāraḥ — a youth; samapadyata — became; utthāyāgnicayāt — rising up from the fire-heap; tasmāc — from that; charabhaṅgo — Śarabhaṅga; vyarocata — shone forth
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.