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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.6.28

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.

2.6.28

tatas tad indrakṣayasaṃnibhaṃ puraṃ didṛkṣubhir jānapadair upāgataiḥ
samantataḥ sasvanam ākulaṃ babhau samudrayādobhir ivārṇavodakam

Then that city, resembling the abode of Indra, thronged and full of noise on every side with the country-folk who had come desiring to see, shone like the waters of the ocean crowded with sea-monsters.

Words: tatas — then; tad — that; indrakṣayasaṃnibhaṃ — resembling the abode of Indra; puraṃ — city; didṛkṣubhir — by (those) desiring to see; jānapadair — by the country-folk; upāgataiḥ — who had come; samantataḥ — on every side; sasvanam — with noise; ākulaṃ — thronged, crowded; babhau — shone; samudrayādobhir — with sea-monsters; ivārṇavodakam — like the water of the ocean

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.