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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.43.7
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: along the way he hears villagers condemn Daśaratha's decision and Kaikeyī's demands
2.43.7
etā vāco manuṣyāṇāṃ grāmasaṃvāsavāsinām
śṛṇvann atiyayau vīraḥ kosalān kosaleśvaraḥ
Hearing these words of the people who dwelt together in the villages, the hero, lord of the Kosalas, passed on beyond the Kosala lands.
Words: etā — these; vāco — the words; manuṣyāṇāṃ — of the people; grāmasaṃvāsavāsinām — of those dwelling together in the villages; śṛṇvann — hearing; atiyayau — passed on beyond; vīraḥ — the hero; kosalān — the Kosala lands; kosaleśvaraḥ — the lord of the Kosalas
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.