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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.64.32

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: the brothers hunt deer, and Rāma prepares portions of meat as funeral offerings

3.64.32

rāmo 'tha sahasaumitrir vanaṃ yātvā sa vīryavān
sthūlān hatvā mahārohīn anu tastāra taṃ dvijam

Then valiant Rāma, together with Saumitri, went into the forest, and having killed large mahārohi deer, spread out (offerings) over that bird.

Words: rāmo — Rāma; 'tha — then; sahasaumitrir — together with Saumitri; vanaṃ — to the forest; yātvā — having gone; sa — he; vīryavān — the valiant; sthūlān — large, stout; hatvā — having killed; mahārohīn — mahārohi (large antelopes/deer); anu tastāra — spread out over, strewed for; taṃ dvijam — that bird (twice-born)

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.