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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.65.7

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: at Ujjihānā, he leaves the larger force behind and presses ahead with faster horses, crossing more rivers including the Gomatī

2.65.7

toraṇaṃ dakṣiṇārdhena jambūprastham upāgamat
varūthaṃ ca yayau ramyaṃ grāmaṃ daśarathātmajaḥ

By the southern side he came to Toraṇa and Jambūprastha, and the son of Daśaratha went on to the lovely village of Varūtha.

Words: toraṇaṃ — Toraṇa (a place); dakṣiṇārdhena — by the southern side; jambūprastham — Jambūprastha (a place); upāgamat — reached, came to; varūthaṃ — Varūtha (a place); ca — and; yayau — went; ramyaṃ — lovely; grāmaṃ — village; daśarathātmajaḥ — the son of Daśaratha

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.