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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.40.25

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 40: The citizens follow to the Tamasā. Rāma asks them to support Bharata, then leaves his chariot to walk beside the elderly brāhmaṇas

In the sequence: the brāhmaṇas explain that they have brought their sacred fires and the white parasols earned through Vājapeya sacrifices, which they offer to hold over him for shade

2.40.25

yācito no nivartasva haṃsaśuklaśiroruhaiḥ
śirobhir nibhṛtācāra mahīpatanapāṃśulaiḥ

Entreated by us with our heads, their hair white as swans and grimed with dust from bowing to the ground, turn back, O you of restrained conduct!

Words: yācito — entreated, begged; no — by us; nivartasva — turn back; haṃsaśuklaśiroruhaiḥ — with hair white as swans; śirobhir — with (our) heads; nibhṛtācāra — O you of restrained, quiet conduct; mahīpatanapāṃśulaiḥ — dusty from falling to the earth

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.