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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.22.5

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 22: Story of Kāma: The loss of his body. At the Sarayū–Gaṅgā confluence, Viśvāmitra recounts how Śiva’s fiery gaze destroyed Kāma’s body, the travellers stay at the hermitage

In the sequence: at the meeting of the Sarayū and Gaṅgā they see an ancient hermitage and ask whose it is

1.22.5

tau prayāte mahāvīryau divyaṃ tripathagāṃ nadīm
dadṛśāte tatas tatra sarayvāḥ saṃgame śubhe

As those two mighty ones journeyed on, they then beheld there, at the auspicious confluence with the Sarayū, the divine three-pathed river (the Gaṅgā).

Words: tau — the two; prayāte — having set forth (the two); mahāvīryau — the two mighty; divyaṃ — divine; tripathagāṃ — the three-pathed (river, Gaṅgā); nadīm — the river; dadṛśāte — the two beheld; tatas — then; tatra — there; sarayvāḥ — of the Sarayū; saṃgame — at the confluence; śubhe — auspicious

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.