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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.65.8

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

2.65.8

tatra ramye vane vāsaṃ kṛtvāsau prāṅmukho yayau
udyānam ujjihānāyāḥ priyakā yatra pādapāḥ

Having made his halt there in the lovely forest, he went on eastward to the garden of Ujjihānā, where there are priyaka trees.

Words: tatra — there; ramye — lovely; vane — in the forest; vāsaṃ — dwelling, halt; kṛtvāsau — he, having made; prāṅmukho — facing east; yayau — went; udyānam — the garden; ujjihānāyāḥ — of Ujjihānā (a place); priyakā — priyaka trees; yatra — where; pādapāḥ — trees

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.