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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.49.5
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: they are to cross the Yamunā on a raft, pass a great dark-green banyan, and continue through the forest toward Citrakūṭa → Bharadvāja then turns back
2.49.5
krośamātraṃ tato gatvā nīlaṃ drakṣyatha kānanam
palāśabadarīmiśraṃ rāma vaṃśaiś ca yāmunaiḥ
'Going just a krośa beyond it, you will see a dark-blue forest, O Rāma, mingled with palāśa and jujube trees and with Yamunā bamboos.'
Words: krośamātraṃ — just a krośa; tato — then, from there; gatvā — having gone; nīlaṃ — dark-blue; drakṣyatha — you (pl.) will see; kānanam — forest; palāśabadarīmiśraṃ — mingled with palāśa and jujube trees; rāma — O Rāma; vaṃśaiś — with bamboos; ca — and; yāmunaiḥ — of the Yamunā
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.