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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.80.25

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 80: Guha recounts Lakṣmaṇa’s vigil. Lakṣmaṇa refused sleep and feared for their parents, then crossed the Gaṅgā with Rāma & Sītā at dawn

In the sequence: Guha says the night passed in this way, and at dawn he had the brothers arrange their matted locks and ferried them across with Sītā → carrying their weapons and dressed for the forest, they continued on foot.

2.80.25

jaṭādharau tau drumacīravāsasau mahābalau kuñjarayūthapopamau
vareṣucāpāsidharau paraṃtapau vyavekṣamāṇau saha sītayā gatau

Those two, wearing matted locks, clad in bark garments, mighty as the leaders of elephant herds, bearing fine bows, arrows, and swords, scorchers of the foe, gazing about them, departed together with Sītā.

Words: jaṭādharau — the two wearing matted locks; tau — those two; drumacīravāsasau — clad in tree-bark garments; mahābalau — the two mighty ones; kuñjarayūthapopamau — like the leaders of elephant herds; vareṣucāpāsidharau — bearing fine arrows, bows, and swords; paraṃtapau — the two scorchers of foes; vyavekṣamāṇau — looking about them; saha sītayā — together with Sītā; gatau — the two departed

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.