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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.65.4

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 crossing the Yamunā, he rests and refreshes his tired company before continuing through the wilderness

2.65.4

veginīṃ ca kuliṅgākhyāṃ hrādinīṃ parvatāvṛtām
yamunāṃ prāpya saṃtīrṇo balam āśvāsayat tadā

Coming to the swift, roaring, mountain-girt river called Kuliṅgā, and reaching the Yamunā, once across he then let his army rest.

Words: veginīṃ — the swift (river); ca — and; kuliṅgākhyāṃ — named Kuliṅgā; hrādinīṃ — roaring, resounding; parvatāvṛtām — surrounded by mountains; yamunāṃ — the Yamunā; prāpya — having reached; saṃtīrṇo — having crossed over; balam — the army; āśvāsayat — rested, refreshed; tadā — then

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.