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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.93.10

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 93: Bharata finds Rāma. Bark markers and smoke lead him to the hut, he falls before his brother in tapasvin dress, Rāma embraces him & Śatrughna

In the sequence: strips of bark hung along the route appear to be Lakṣmaṇa's markers, and smoke confirms that the dwelling is occupied

2.93.10

idaṃ codāttadantānāṃ kuñjarāṇāṃ tarasvinām
śailapārśve parikrāntam anyonyam abhigarjatām

And this, on the mountainside, is where powerful elephants with lofty tusks have roamed about, trumpeting at one another.

Words: idaṃ — this; codāttadantānāṃ — and of the high-tusked ones; kuñjarāṇāṃ — of elephants; tarasvinām — powerful, swift; śailapārśve — on the mountainside; parikrāntam — roamed about; anyonyam — one another; abhigarjatām — of (them) trumpeting at

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.