Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa 78: Guha prepares to resist Bharata · 2.78.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.78.1

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 78: Guha prepares to resist Bharata. Seeing the army, he readies five hundred armed boats to protect Rāma and approaches Bharata to learn his intentions

In the sequence: Guha sees the immense force beside the Gaṅgā and cannot determine its full extent

2.78.1

tato niviṣṭāṃ dhvajinīṃ gaṅgām anvāśritāṃ nadīm
niṣādarājo dṛṣṭvaiva jñātīn saṃtvarito 'bravīt

Then the Niṣāda king, seeing the army encamped along the river Gaṅgā, hurriedly said to his kinsmen:

Words: tato — then; niviṣṭāṃ — encamped; dhvajinīṃ — the army (banner-bearing host); gaṅgām anvāśritāṃ — stationed along the Gaṅgā; nadīm — river; niṣādarājo — the Niṣāda king; dṛṣṭvaiva — as soon as he saw; jñātīn — to his kinsmen; saṃtvarito — hurriedly; 'bravīt — said

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.