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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.30.15

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

1.30.15

pradakṣiṇaṃ tataḥ kṛtvā siddhāśramam anuttamam
uttarāṃ diśam uddiśya prasthātum upacakrame

Then, having circumambulated the peerless Siddhāśrama, he began to set out, heading toward the northern quarter.

Words: pradakṣiṇaṃ — circumambulation (keeping to the right); tataḥ — then; kṛtvā — having made; siddhāśramam — Siddhāśrama; anuttamam — peerless; uttarāṃ — northern; diśam — quarter, direction; uddiśya — heading toward, aiming at; prasthātum — to set out; upacakrame — began

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.