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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.43.13

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 43: Rāma crosses Kosala’s rivers. He crosses the Vedaśruti, Gomatī & Syandikā, shows Sītā the ancestral lands and longs to see his parents again

In the sequence: speaking with Sumantra, he wonders when he will return to his parents and once again visit the Sarayū's woods.

2.43.13

kadāhaṃ punar āgamya sarayvāḥ puṣpite vane
mṛgayāṃ paryāṭaṣyāmi mātrā pitrā ca saṃgataḥ

'When shall I come back again and roam in the chase in the flowering forest of the Sarayū, reunited with my mother and father?'

Words: kadāhaṃ — when shall I; punar — again; āgamya — having come back, returned; sarayvāḥ — of the Sarayū; puṣpite — flowering, in bloom; vane — in the forest; mṛgayāṃ — the hunt, chase; paryāṭaṣyāmi — shall roam about, range; mātrā — with mother; pitrā — with father; ca — and; saṃgataḥ — reunited, joined together

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.