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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.89.5
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 89: Rāma invites Sītā into the Mandākinī. He urges her to bathe and regard the mountain as Ayodhyā, the river as Sarayū and its animals as citizens
In the sequence: they see deer drinking and tapasvins bathing or worshipping the sun
2.89.5
mṛgayūthanipītāni kaluṣāmbhāṃsi sāmpratam
tīrthāni ramaṇīyāni ratiṃ saṃjanayanti me
The lovely bathing-places, their waters drunk from by herds of deer and now grown turbid, awaken delight in me.
Words: mṛgayūthanipītāni — drunk from by herds of deer; kaluṣāmbhāṃsi — with turbid waters; sāmpratam — now, at present; tīrthāni — the bathing-places, fords; ramaṇīyāni — lovely, delightful; ratiṃ — delight; saṃjanayanti — produce, awaken; me — in me
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.