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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.46.6

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 46: Rāvaṇa boasts of his power. He recounts defeating Kubera and seizing Puṣpaka, offers Laṅkā’s pleasures and is rebuked by Sītā for disgracing his lineage

In the sequence: he recounts defeating Kubera and seizing Puṣpaka, saying that Kubera now lives on Kailāsa after abandoning his former home

3.46.6

yasya tat puṣpakaṃ nāma vimānaṃ kāmagaṃ śubham
vīryād āvarjitaṃ bhadre yena yāmi vihāyasaṃ

whose splendid aerial car named Puṣpaka, going wherever one wills, I seized by my might, O gracious one, and in which I travel through the sky.

Words: yasya — whose; tat — that; puṣpakaṃ — Puṣpaka; nāma — by name; vimānaṃ — aerial car; kāmagaṃ — going at will; śubham — splendid, beautiful; vīryād — by valour, might; āvarjitaṃ — won over, seized; bhadre — O gracious one; yena — by which; yāmi — I go, travel; vihāyasaṃ — through the sky, the air

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.