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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.62.13

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 62: Summoning Bharata. Five messengers ride to Kekaya with gifts and an urgent summons, forbidden to reveal Daśaratha’s death or Rāma’s exile

In the sequence: passing further rivers, settlements, and landmarks, they press on to Girivraja → they reach the city at night with their horses exhausted.

2.62.13

abhikālaṃ tataḥ prāpya tejo'bhibhavanāc cyutāḥ
yayur madhyena bāhlīkān sudāmānaṃ ca parvatam
viṣṇoḥ padaṃ prekṣamāṇā vipāśāṃ cāpi śālmalīm

Then reaching Abhikāla and passing beyond the oppression of the heat, they went through the midst of the Bāhlīkas and Mount Sudāman, gazing on Viṣṇu's Step, and on the Vipāśā and the Śālmalī rivers as well.

Words: abhikālaṃ — Abhikāla (a place); tataḥ — then; prāpya — having reached; tejo'bhibhavanāc — from the oppression of heat; cyutāḥ — freed, released from; yayur — went; madhyena — through the midst of; bāhlīkān — the Bāhlīkas; sudāmānaṃ — Sudāman (a mountain); ca — and; parvatam — the mountain; viṣṇoḥ — of Viṣṇu; padaṃ — the step, footprint; prekṣamāṇā — beholding, gazing on; vipāśāṃ — the Vipāśā (river); cāpi — and also; śālmalīm — the Śālmalī (river)

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.