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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.76.6

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 76: Return to Ayodhyā: The couples’ reception and married life. Rāma gives the bow to Varuṇa and comforts Daśaratha, Ayodhyā welcomes the couples and Rāma & Sītā grow in mutual affection

In the sequence: they enter a city of banners, music, watered roads, scattered flowers, and citizens calling blessings

1.76.6

patākādhvajinīṃ ramyāṃ tūryodghuṣṭanināditām
siktarājapathāṃ ramyāṃ prakīrṇakusumotkarām

(He entered) the lovely city, decked with banners and flags, resounding with the blare of trumpets, its royal roads sprinkled with water, lovely, strewn with heaps of scattered flowers,

Words: patākādhvajinīṃ — decked with banners and flags; ramyāṃ — lovely; tūryodghuṣṭanināditām — resounding with the blare of trumpets; siktarājapathāṃ — with its royal roads sprinkled with water; ramyāṃ — lovely; prakīrṇakusumotkarām — strewn with heaps of scattered flowers

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.