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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.30.17

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

1.30.17

mṛgapakṣigaṇāś caiva siddhāśramanivāsinaḥ
anujagmur mahātmānaṃ viśvāmitraṃ mahāmunim

And the flocks of beasts and birds dwelling in Siddhāśrama followed the great-souled Viśvāmitra, the great sage.

Words: mṛgapakṣigaṇāś — the flocks of beasts and birds; caiva — and; siddhāśramanivāsinaḥ — dwelling in Siddhāśrama; anujagmur — followed; mahātmānaṃ — the great-souled; viśvāmitraṃ — Viśvāmitra; mahāmunim — the great sage

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.