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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.5.4

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 5: Vasiṣṭha prepares the upavāsa. He establishes Rāma & Sītā’s fast with sacred formulas and reports to Daśaratha as Ayodhyā decorates its streets

In the sequence: Rāma comes out to welcome the muni and personally helps him down from his chariot

2.5.4

sa rāmabhavanaṃ prāpya pāṇḍurābhraghanaprabham
tisraḥ kakṣyā rathenaiva viveśa munisattamaḥ

Reaching Rāma's palace, which shone like a mass of white cloud, that best of sages passed through three courtyards by chariot itself.

Words: sa — he; rāmabhavanaṃ — Rāma's palace; prāpya — having reached; pāṇḍurābhraghanaprabham — shining like a mass of white cloud; tisraḥ — three; kakṣyā — courtyards, enclosures; rathenaiva — by chariot itself; viveśa — entered, passed through; munisattamaḥ — the best of sages

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.