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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.64.27

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 asks Lakṣmaṇa to gather wood while he makes fire, and prepares a funeral pyre

3.64.27

saumitre hara kāṣṭhāni nirmathiṣyāmi pāvakam
gṛdhrarājaṃ didhakṣāmi matkṛte nidhanaṃ gatam

Saumitri, fetch pieces of wood; I shall kindle fire by friction. I wish to cremate the vulture-king, who met his death on my account.

Words: saumitre — O Saumitri; hara — fetch, bring; kāṣṭhāni — pieces of wood, firewood; nirmathiṣyāmi — I shall kindle by churning; pāvakam — the fire; gṛdhrarājaṃ — the vulture-king; didhakṣāmi — I wish to burn, cremate; matkṛte — on my account; nidhanaṃ — death, destruction; gatam — gone to, met

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.