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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.53.6

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 53: Story of Viśvāmitra: Śabalā resists seizure. The King seizes Śabalā, she returns to Vasiṣṭha and, with his permission, produces armies to resist the royal forces

In the sequence: she shakes off the King's servants, races back to Vasiṣṭha, and asks him why he has let her be taken

1.53.6

nirdhūya tāṃs tadā bhṛtyāñ śataśaḥ śatrusūdana
jagāmānilavegena pādamūlaṃ mahātmanaḥ

Shaking off those servants by the hundreds, O slayer of foes, she then sped with the swiftness of the wind to the feet of the great-souled one.

Words: nirdhūya — having shaken off; tāṃs — those; tadā — then; bhṛtyāñ — the servants; śataśaḥ — by the hundreds; śatrusūdana — O slayer of foes; jagāmānilavegena — went with the speed of the wind; pādamūlaṃ — to the feet (lit. root of the feet); mahātmanaḥ — of the great-souled one

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.