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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.91.15

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: Lakṣmaṇa climbs down and stands beside him → meanwhile Bharata distributes his camp around the mountain to avoid crowding the hermitage.

2.91.15

bharatenātha saṃdiṣṭā saṃmardo na bhaved iti
samantāt tasya śailasya senāvāsam akalpayat

Then, at Bharata's order that there should be no crowding, the army was directed, and its encampment was arranged all around that mountain.

Words: bharatenātha — then by Bharata; saṃdiṣṭā — instructed, directed; saṃmardo — a crush, jostling; na bhaved iti — ‘let there not be’; samantāt — all around; tasya śailasya — of that mountain; senāvāsam — the army's encampment; akalpayat — arranged, made ready

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.