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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.64.33

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

3.64.33

rohimāṃsāni coddhṛtya peśīkṛtvā mahāyaśāḥ
śakunāya dadau rāmo ramye haritaśādvale

And having taken out the flesh of the rohi deer and made it into portions, the greatly glorious Rāma gave it to the bird on a lovely green lawn.

Words: rohimāṃsāni — the flesh of the rohi deer; coddhṛtya — and having taken out; peśīkṛtvā — having made into pieces/portions; mahāyaśāḥ — the greatly glorious; śakunāya — for the bird; dadau — gave; rāmo — Rāma; ramye — on the lovely; haritaśādvale — green grassy lawn

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.