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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.64.31

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 blesses Jaṭāyu with the destinations earned by sacrifice, generosity, and courage, then cremates him as a kinsman

3.64.31

evam uktvā citāṃ dīptām āropya patageśvaram
dadāha rāmo dharmātmā svabandhum iva duḥkhitaḥ

Having spoken thus and placed the lord of birds upon the blazing pyre, the righteous Rāma, grief-stricken, burned him as though he were his own kinsman.

Words: evam uktvā — having spoken thus; citāṃ — the pyre; dīptām — blazing; āropya — having placed upon; patageśvaram — the lord of birds; dadāha — burned; rāmo — Rāma; dharmātmā — the righteous-souled; svabandhum — his own kinsman; iva — as though, like; duḥkhitaḥ — grief-stricken

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.