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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.27.15
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 27: Divine weapons: Rāma learns their withdrawal. Rāma learns their withdrawal, permits the embodied powers to depart and asks about the beautiful hermitage ahead
In the sequence: continuing onward, Rāma notices a beautiful grove gleaming like a cloud beside a mountain, full of deer and sweet-voiced birds → contrasting it with the terrifying forest they have left, he asks whether this is the hermitage troubled by the rākṣasas.
1.27.15
kiṃ nv etan meghasaṃkāśaṃ parvatasyāvidūrataḥ
vṛkṣaṣaṇḍam ito bhāti paraṃ kautūhalaṃ hi me
“What is this, resembling a cloud, that gleams yonder near the mountain — this grove of trees? For great indeed is my curiosity.
Words: kiṃ — what; nv — then, pray; etan — this; meghasaṃkāśaṃ — resembling a cloud; parvatasyāvidūrataḥ — not far from the mountain; vṛkṣaṣaṇḍam — grove of trees; ito — from here, yonder; bhāti — shines, appears; paraṃ — great, exceeding; kautūhalaṃ — curiosity; hi — indeed, for; me — my
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.