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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.30.16

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: roughly a hundred cartloads accompany his followers, and even the hermitage's animals and birds follow him

1.30.16

taṃ vrajantaṃ munivaram anvagād anusāriṇām
śakaṭī śatamātraṃ tu prayāṇe brahmavādinām

As that excellent sage went along, there followed him on the march some hundred cartloads belonging to his attendant followers, the reciters of the Veda.

Words: taṃ — him; vrajantaṃ — going, proceeding; munivaram — the excellent sage; anvagād — followed, went after; anusāriṇām — of the followers, attendants; śakaṭī — carts, wagons; śatamātraṃ — about a hundred; tu — and; prayāṇe — on the journey, march; brahmavādinām — of the reciters of the Veda

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.