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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.83.16

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 83: Guha ferries Bharata’s company. Five hundred boats carry people, vehicles and provisions across the Gaṅgā, the army halts as Bharata approaches Bharadvāja

In the sequence: the camp is set ablaze, baggage loaded, and boats carry people, horses, vehicles, and supplies across

2.83.16

patākinyas tu tā nāvaḥ svayaṃ dāśair adhiṣṭhitāḥ
vahantyo janam ārūḍhaṃ tadā saṃpetur āśugāḥ

And those pennant-bearing boats, steered by the ferrymen themselves, bearing the people who had boarded, then sped swiftly across.

Words: patākinyas — pennant-bearing; tu — and; tā — those; nāvaḥ — boats; svayaṃ — themselves; dāśair — by the ferrymen; adhiṣṭhitāḥ — manned, steered; vahantyo — carrying; janam — the people; ārūḍhaṃ — who had boarded; tadā — then; saṃpetur — sped along; āśugāḥ — swift

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.