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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.105.4

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

2.105.4

paśyan dhātusahasrāṇi ramyāṇi vividhāni ca
prayayau tasya pārśvena sasainyo bharatas tadā

Gazing at thousands of lovely and varied mineral-veins, Bharata then journeyed along its flank with his army.

Words: paśyan — gazing at; dhātusahasrāṇi — thousands of ore-veins; ramyāṇi — lovely; vividhāni ca — and manifold; prayayau — journeyed on; tasya — of it; pārśvena — along the flank; sasainyo — with his army; bharatas — Bharata; tadā — then

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.