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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.45.20

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 45: Lakṣmaṇa keeps watch beside the Gaṅgā. Guha offers to guard the camp, Lakṣmaṇa refuses a bed and stays awake fearing the deaths of their grieving parents

In the sequence: imagining the funeral rites he may miss, he longs for the day they can return together

2.45.20

rathāśvagajasaṃbādhāṃ tūryanādavināditām
sarvakalyāṇasaṃpūrṇāṃ hṛṣṭapuṣṭajanākulām

crowded with chariots, horses, and elephants, resounding with the sound of trumpets, replete with every prosperity, thronged with glad and well-fed people,

Words: rathāśvagajasaṃbādhāṃ — crowded with chariots, horses, and elephants; tūryanādavināditām — resounding with the sound of instruments; sarvakalyāṇasaṃpūrṇāṃ — full of every prosperity; hṛṣṭapuṣṭajanākulām — thronged with joyful and well-fed people

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.