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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.92.13

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 92: Bharata searches for Rāma’s hut. Search parties enter the forest, smoke guides Bharata forward and he keeps the larger company back while approaching with Guha

In the sequence: he walks through the flowering woods and sees smoke rising near a tree

2.92.13

sa gireś citrakūṭasya sālam āsādya puṣpitam
rāmāśramagatasyāgner dadarśa dhvajam ucchritam

Reaching a flowering sāla tree of Mount Citrakūṭa, he saw the upraised banner of smoke from the fire in Rāma's hermitage.

Words: sa — he; gireś — of the mountain; citrakūṭasya — of Citrakūṭa; sālam — sāla tree; āsādya — having reached; puṣpitam — flowering; rāmāśramagatasyāgner — of the fire in Rāma's hermitage; dadarśa — saw; dhvajam — the banner (of smoke); ucchritam — upraised

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.