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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.64.17
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 64: Rāma performs Jaṭāyu’s funeral. Jaṭāyu reports the southward flight and dies, Rāma cremates him as kin, offers deer meat and gives water in the Godāvarī
In the sequence: he identifies Rāvaṇa as Viśravas's son and Kubera's brother, then dies while Rāma is still asking him to speak.
3.64.17
brūhi brūhīti rāmasya bruvāṇasya kṛtāñjaleḥ
tyaktvā śarīraṃ gṛdhrasya jagmuḥ prāṇā vihāyasaṃ
As Rāma, his palms joined, kept saying “Speak, speak!”, the life-breaths of the vulture, forsaking his body, went off into the sky.
Words: brūhi brūhīti — “speak, speak!”; rāmasya — of Rāma; bruvāṇasya — saying, speaking; kṛtāñjaleḥ — with palms joined; tyaktvā — having forsaken; śarīraṃ — the body; gṛdhrasya — of the vulture; jagmuḥ — went; prāṇā — the life-breaths; vihāyasaṃ — into the sky
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.