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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.43.3

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: Rāma continues through the remaining night, performs his dawn worship, and travels past outlying villages and forests

2.43.3

grāmān vikṛṣṭasīmāṃs tān puṣpitāni vanāni ca
paśyann atiyayau śīghraṃ śarair iva hayottamaiḥ

Gazing on those villages with their far-flung boundaries and the flowering forests, he swept swiftly past, as if borne on arrows, by his excellent horses.

Words: grāmān — the villages; vikṛṣṭasīmāṃs — with far-drawn boundaries; tān — those; puṣpitāni — flowering, in bloom; vanāni — forests; ca — and; paśyann — gazing, seeing; atiyayau — passed swiftly by, went past; śīghraṃ — swiftly; śarair iva — as if by arrows; hayottamaiḥ — by his excellent horses

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.