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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.69.3

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 69: Vivāha: Kuśadhvaja’s arrival and the Ikṣvāku lineage. Kuśadhvaja joins the assembly, Vasiṣṭha recounts the Ikṣvāku lineage and asks for Janaka’s two daughters for Rāma & Lakṣmaṇa

In the sequence: At daybreak Janaka tells Śatānanda that he wants his younger brother Kuśadhvaja, ruler of Sāṃkāśyā beside the Ikṣumatī, to share the celebration

1.69.3

vāryāphalakaparyantāṃ pibann ikṣumatīṃ nadīm
sāṃkāśyāṃ puṇyasaṃkāśāṃ vimānam iva puṣpakam

(That city) Sāṃkāśyā, ringed round with rows of defensive planks and drinking from (skirting) the river Ikṣumatī, holy to behold like the Puṣpaka aerial car.

Words: vāryāphalakaparyantāṃ — bordered all around by defensive planks (palisades); pibann — drinking; ikṣumatīṃ — the Ikṣumatī; nadīm — river; sāṃkāśyāṃ — Sāṃkāśyā (the city); puṇyasaṃkāśāṃ — of holy appearance; vimānam — the aerial car, flying palace; iva — like; puṣpakam — Puṣpaka

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.