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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.57.13

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 57: Daśaratha’s arrow aimed at a sound. He recalls mistaking a filling pot for an elephant and shooting a youth who directs him to his blind parents

In the sequence: He recalls his youth, before their marriage, when he was still heir: during the rainy season he went hunting beside the Sarayū

2.57.13

patitenāmbhasā channaḥ patamānena cāsakṛt
ābabhau mattasāraṅgas toyarāśir ivācalaḥ

Drenched by the water that had fallen and that kept falling again and again, the mountain, its cātaka birds maddened with joy, shone like a mass of water.

Words: patitenāmbhasā — by the fallen water; channaḥ — covered, drenched; patamānena — by that falling; cāsakṛt — and repeatedly; ābabhau — shone; mattasāraṅgas — its cātaka birds maddened (with joy); toyarāśir — a mass of water; ivācalaḥ — like a mountain

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.