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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.90.7
Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 90: Lakṣmaṇa suspects Bharata’s army. He recognizes the banner, assumes an attack and urges Rāma to extinguish the fire, hide Sītā and prepare to fight
In the sequence: Lakṣmaṇa climbs a tree and sees the army to the north → he tells Rāma to put out the fire, hide Sītā in a cave, and prepare his weapons
2.90.7
sa lakṣmaṇaḥ saṃtvaritaḥ sālam āruhya puṣpitam
prekṣamāṇo diśaḥ sarvāḥ pūrvāṃ diśam avaikṣata
That Lakṣmaṇa, in haste, climbed a flowering sāla tree and, surveying all directions, looked toward the east.
Words: sa lakṣmaṇaḥ — that Lakṣmaṇa; saṃtvaritaḥ — in haste, hurrying; sālam — a sāla tree; āruhya — having climbed; puṣpitam — flowering; prekṣamāṇo — surveying, looking; diśaḥ sarvāḥ — all the directions; pūrvāṃ diśam — toward the eastern direction; avaikṣata — looked
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.