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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.67.11
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 67: Story of Kabandha. A ṛṣi’s curse and Indra’s thunderbolt produced his deformed body, he asks for cremation to restore his discernment and name a helpful ally
In the sequence: Indra would not negate Brahmā's promise of long life → when Kabandha asked how he could survive without eating, Indra gave him the long arms and belly-mouth with which he now feeds
3.67.11
sa mayā yācyamānaḥ sann ānayad yamasādanam
pitāmahavacaḥ satyaṃ tad astv iti mamābravīt
“Being entreated by me, he yet did not send me to the abode of Yama; ‘Let the Grandsire's word hold true,’ he said to me. [uncertain: pāda a has no explicit negative; sense supplied from context]
Words: sa — he; mayā — by me; yācyamānaḥ — being entreated; sann — being (so); ānayad — led, brought; yamasādanam — to the abode of Yama; pitāmahavacaḥ — the Grandsire's word; satyaṃ — true; tad — that; astv — let it be; iti — thus; mamābravīt — he said to me
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.