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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.49.8
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
2.49.8
iti tau puruṣavyāghrau mantrayitvā manasvinau
sītām evāgrataḥ kṛtvā kālindīṃ jagmatur nadīm
Having thus taken counsel, those two wise tigers among men, placing Sītā in front, went on to the river Kālindī.
Words: iti — thus; tau — the two; puruṣavyāghrau — tigers among men; mantrayitvā — having taken counsel, deliberated; manasvinau — the two wise ones; sītām — Sītā; evāgrataḥ — indeed in front; kṛtvā — having placed; kālindīṃ — the Kālindī; jagmatur — the two went; nadīm — river
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.