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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.3.29

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 3: Vālmīki sees the whole narrative. Vālmīki sees the narrative through meditation and sets out its events, including those still to come

In the sequence: it reaches Sītā's recovery, the flight home, Bharata's reunion, Rāma's abhiṣeka, the armies' dismissal, and the later banishment of Sītā → Vālmīki also records what is still to come in the Uttarakāṇḍa.

1.3.29

anāgataṃ ca yat kiṃ cid rāmasya vasudhātale
tac cakārottare kāvye vālmīkir bhagavān ṛṣiḥ

And whatever was yet to come for Rāma upon the earth, all that the venerable seer Vālmīki set forth in the later book (the Uttarakāṇḍa).

Words: anāgataṃ ca — and what was yet to come; yat kiṃ cid — whatever; rāmasya — of/for Rāma; vasudhātale — upon the earth; tac cakārottare — that he set forth in the later; kāvye — in the poem, book; vālmīkir — Vālmīki; bhagavān — the venerable; ṛṣiḥ — the seer

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.