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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.12

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 91: Rāma restrains Lakṣmaṇa. He rejects suspicion of Bharata and shames his brother’s anger, Bharata spreads the camp around the mountain to avoid crowding the hermitage

In the sequence: Rāma notices familiar royal horses and Daśaratha's elephant among the approaching company

2.91.12

etau tau saṃprakāśete gotravantau manoramau
vāyuvegasamau vīra javanau turagottamau

There, O hero, gleam those two splendid horses of noble stock, delightful, swift, matching the speed of the wind — the best of steeds.

Words: etau tau — those two; saṃprakāśete — shine forth (dual); gotravantau — of noble stock; manoramau — delightful; vāyuvegasamau — equal to the wind's speed; vīra — O hero; javanau — swift (dual); turagottamau — the best of horses

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.