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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.30.14

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 30: Departure for Mithilā and the camp beside the Śoṇā. The ṛṣis invite the princes to Janaka’s sacrifice and the bow no suitor has strung, a camp beside the Śoṇā prompts the region’s history

In the sequence: Viśvāmitra takes leave of the vanadevatās, saying that he will journey toward the Himālaya on the Gaṅgā’s northern bank → he circles Siddhāśrama and sets out northward with the princes and ṛṣis

1.30.14

svasti vo 'stu gamiṣyāmi siddhaḥ siddhāśramād aham
uttare jāhnavītīre himavantaṃ śiloccayam

“May it be well with you! Perfected, I shall depart from Siddhāśrama toward the Himālaya mountain, on the northern bank of the Jāhnavī.”

Words: svasti — well-being, benediction; vo — to you (pl.); 'stu — let it be; gamiṣyāmi — I shall go, depart; siddhaḥ — perfected, accomplished; siddhāśramād — from Siddhāśrama; aham — I; uttare — on the northern; jāhnavītīre — on the bank of the Jāhnavī (Gaṅgā); himavantaṃ — the Himālaya (snow-mountain); śiloccayam — the mountain, mass of rock

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.