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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.49.6
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
2.49.6
sa panthāś citrakūṭasya gataḥ subahuśo mayā
ramyo mārdavayuktaś ca vanadāvair vivarjitaḥ
iti panthānam āvedya maharṣiḥ sa nyavartata
'That is the road to Citrakūṭa, traveled by me very many times, delightful and easy, free of forest-fires.' Having thus pointed out the path, the great sage turned back.
Words: sa — that; panthāś — path, road; citrakūṭasya — to Citrakūṭa; gataḥ — gone, traveled; subahuśo — very many times; mayā — by me; ramyo — delightful; mārdavayuktaś — endowed with softness, easy; ca — and; vanadāvair — by forest-fires; vivarjitaḥ — free of, devoid of; iti — thus; panthānam — the path; āvedya — having made known, pointed out; maharṣiḥ — the great sage; sa — he; nyavartata — turned back, returned
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.