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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.43.8

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: heading toward the country associated with Agastya, the travelers cross the Vedaśruti, then the Gomatī and Syandikā rivers

2.43.8

tato vedaśrutiṃ nāma śivavārivahāṃ nadīm
uttīryābhimukhaḥ prāyād agastyādhyuṣitāṃ diśam

Then, crossing the river named Vedaśruti, which bore auspicious waters, he went on facing the region inhabited by Agastya.

Words: tato — then; vedaśrutiṃ — Vedaśruti; nāma — by name; śivavārivahāṃ — bearing auspicious waters; nadīm — the river; uttīryābhimukhaḥ — having crossed, facing (it); prāyād — went forth; agastyādhyuṣitāṃ — inhabited by Agastya; diśam — the region, direction

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.