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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.49.10

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 49: The raft across the Yamunā. The brothers build a raft for Sītā, she crosses and prays at the banyan to see Kausalyā & Sumitrā again

In the sequence: at the river, the brothers build a raft from logs; Lakṣmaṇa makes a comfortable place for Sītā, and Rāma helps her aboard

2.49.10

tatra śriyam ivācintyāṃ rāmo dāśarathiḥ priyām
īṣatsaṃlajjamānāṃ tām adhyāropayata plavam

There Rāma, son of Daśaratha, helped his beloved—slightly bashful, like inconceivable Śrī herself—up onto the raft.

Words: tatra — there; śriyam — Śrī, the goddess of fortune; ivācintyāṃ — like the inconceivable; rāmo — Rāma; dāśarathiḥ — son of Daśaratha; priyām — his beloved; īṣatsaṃlajjamānāṃ — slightly bashful; tām — her; adhyāropayata — helped mount, set up onto; plavam — the raft

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.