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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.6.27

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 6: Worship before the abhiṣeka. Rāma worships Nārāyaṇa with Sītā, offers havis and eats its remainder, they sleep on kuśa as Ayodhyā celebrates

In the sequence: visitors arrive from the countryside until Ayodhyā is packed with people waiting to witness the ceremony.

2.6.27

janaughais tair visarpadbhiḥ śuśruve tatra nisvanaḥ
parvasūdīrṇavegasya sāgarasyeva nisvanaḥ

From those spreading floods of people a sound was heard there, like the sound of the ocean whose surge has swelled high at the full-moon days.

Words: janaughais — by floods of people; tair — those; visarpadbhiḥ — spreading, moving about; śuśruve — was heard; tatra — there; nisvanaḥ — a sound; parvasūdīrṇavegasya — of (the ocean) whose surge has swelled at the full-moon days; sāgarasyeva — like that of the ocean; nisvanaḥ — the sound

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.