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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.65.12

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 65: Bharata reaches Ayodhyā. He hastens ahead of his company, finds the city silent and neglected and enters his father’s residence in alarm

In the sequence: after seven nights he sees Ayodhyā at dawn

2.65.12

kaliṅga nagare cāpi prāpya sālavanaṃ tadā
bharataḥ kṣipram āgacchat supariśrāntavāhanaḥ

And reaching a sāla forest near the city of Kaliṅga, Bharata then came on swiftly, though his mounts were quite worn out.

Words: kaliṅga — Kaliṅga; nagare — at the city; cāpi — and also; prāpya — having reached; sālavanaṃ — the sāla forest; tadā — then; bharataḥ — Bharata; kṣipram — swiftly; āgacchat — came; supariśrāntavāhanaḥ — his mounts quite exhausted

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.