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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.48.3

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 48: Bharadvāja directs Rāma to Citrakūṭa. Rāma seeks seclusion beyond the Gaṅgā–Yamunā confluence, Bharadvāja recommends the food-rich mountain

In the sequence: The next morning they set out toward the meeting of the Gaṅgā and Yamunā

2.48.3

te bhūmim āgān vividhān deśāṃś cāpi manoramān
adṛṣṭapūrvān paśyantas tatra tatra yaśasvinaḥ

Those illustrious ones came upon land and various delightful regions never seen before, gazing at them here and there.

Words: te — they; bhūmim — land, ground; āgān — they came to; vividhān — various; deśāṃś — regions; cāpi — and also; manoramān — delightful, pleasing to the mind; adṛṣṭapūrvān — never seen before; paśyantas — gazing, seeing; tatra tatra — here and there; yaśasvinaḥ — the illustrious ones

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.