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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.105.3

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 105: Bharata carries the sandals home. The company circles Citrakūṭa, Bharata reports Rāma’s decision to Bharadvāja and recrosses the Yamunā & Gaṅgā toward Ayodhyā

In the sequence: Placing the sandals on his own head, Bharata mounts his chariot with Śatrughna, while Vasiṣṭha, Vāmadeva, Jābāli, and the ministers proceed ahead → travelling eastward beside the Mandākinī, the departing company makes a rightward circuit of the great mountain Citrakūṭa, and Bharata journeys with his army along its flank, viewing its varied mineral formations

2.105.3

mandākinīṃ nadīṃ ramyāṃ prāṅmukhās te yayus tadā
pradakṣiṇaṃ ca kurvāṇāś citrakūṭaṃ mahāgirim

Then, facing east, they proceeded along the lovely river Mandākinī, making a rightward circuit of the great mountain Citrakūṭa.

Words: mandākinīṃ — the Mandākinī; nadīṃ — river; ramyāṃ — lovely; prāṅmukhās — facing east; te — they; yayus — went; tadā — then; pradakṣiṇaṃ ca — and a rightward circuit; kurvāṇāś — making; citrakūṭaṃ — around Citrakūṭa; mahāgirim — the great mountain

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.