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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.43.9

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

2.43.9

gatvā tu suciraṃ kālaṃ tataḥ śītajalāṃ nadīm
gomatīṃ goyutānūpām atarat sāgaraṃgamām

After journeying a very long while, he then crossed the cool-watered river Gomatī, whose meadow-banks teemed with cattle, flowing on to the sea.

Words: gatvā — having gone, journeyed; tu — and; suciraṃ — very long; kālaṃ — time; tataḥ — then; śītajalāṃ — cool-watered; nadīm — river; gomatīṃ — the Gomatī; goyutānūpām — with meadow-banks full of cattle; atarat — crossed; sāgaraṃgamām — flowing to the sea

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.