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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.64.18

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.

3.64.18

sa nikṣipya śiro bhūmau prasārya caraṇau tadā
vikṣipya ca śarīraṃ svaṃ papāta dharaṇītale

Laying his head upon the ground and stretching out his feet, then flinging out his own body, he fell upon the earth's surface.

Words: sa — he; nikṣipya — having laid down; śiro — the head; bhūmau — on the ground; prasārya — having stretched out; caraṇau — the two feet; tadā — then; vikṣipya — having flung out, cast; ca — and; śarīraṃ svaṃ — his own body; papāta — fell; dharaṇītale — on the surface of the earth

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.