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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.4.14

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 4: Kuśa & Lava perform the poem. Kuśa & Lava learn and perform the poem, their singing moves the ṛṣis and brings them before Rāma

In the sequence: the listeners weep, praise the sweetness of the verses and singing, and say the distant events seem to happen before their eyes

1.4.14

tac chrutvā munayaḥ sarve bāṣpaparyākulekṣaṇāḥ
sādhu sādhv ity tāv ūcatuḥ paraṃ vismayam āgatāḥ

Hearing it, all the sages, their eyes brimming with tears, said to the two, “Excellent! Excellent!”, filled with the utmost wonder.

Words: tac chrutvā — having heard that; munayaḥ sarve — all the sages; bāṣpaparyākulekṣaṇāḥ — their eyes troubled with tears; sādhu sādhv — ‘well done, well done’; ity — thus; tāv — to those two; ūcatuḥ — the two/(they) said; paraṃ vismayam — the utmost wonder; āgatāḥ — having come to, reached

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.