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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.64.28

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

3.64.28

nāthaṃ patagalokasya citām āropayāmy aham
imaṃ dhakṣyāmi saumitre hataṃ raudreṇa rakṣasā

This lord of the bird-world I place upon the pyre; I shall burn him, Saumitri, slain by the cruel rākṣasa.

Words: nāthaṃ — the lord, protector; patagalokasya — of the bird-world; citām — the funeral pyre; āropayāmy — I place upon; aham — I; imaṃ — this one; dhakṣyāmi — I shall burn; saumitre — O Saumitri; hataṃ — slain; raudreṇa — by the cruel one; rakṣasā — by the rākṣasa

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.