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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.70.22

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 70: Daśaratha’s cremation. The body is lifted from oil and carried to a fragrant-wood pyre, the family offers water in the Sarayū and begins ten days of mourning

In the sequence: the ṛtvijs and Queens circle the burning pyre, keeping Daśaratha to their left and then go to the Sarayū to offer water → the family observes ten days of mourning on the ground.

2.70.22

tato rudantyo vivaśā vilapya ca punaḥ punaḥ
yānebhyaḥ sarayūtīram avaterur varāṅganāḥ

Then those lovely women, weeping helplessly and lamenting again and again, descended from their carriages to the bank of the Sarayū.

Words: tato — then; rudantyo — weeping; vivaśā — helpless; vilapya — having lamented; ca — and; punaḥ punaḥ — again and again; yānebhyaḥ — from the carriages; sarayūtīram — to the bank of the Sarayū; avaterur — descended; varāṅganāḥ — the lovely women

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.