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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.13

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

2.91.13

sa eṣa sumahākāyaḥ kampate vāhinīmukhe
nāgaḥ śatruṃjayo nāma vṛddhas tātasya dhīmataḥ

There, at the head of the army, sways that huge-bodied elephant named Śatruṃjaya, the aged mount of my wise father.

Words: sa eṣa — there that; sumahākāyaḥ — of very great body; kampate — sways, moves; vāhinīmukhe — at the head of the army; nāgaḥ — the elephant; śatruṃjayo nāma — named Śatruṃjaya (conqueror of foes); vṛddhas — old, aged; tātasya — of (my) father; dhīmataḥ — of the wise

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.