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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.93.13

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: near the Mandākinī he reproaches himself that Rāma is living this way for his sake

2.93.13

atha gatvā muhūrtaṃ tu citrakūṭaṃ sa rāghavaḥ
mandākinīm anuprāptas taṃ janaṃ cedam abravīt

Then, having gone on a while, that scion of Raghu reached the Mandākinī at Citrakūṭa and said this to those people:

Words: atha — then; gatvā — having gone; muhūrtaṃ — a while, a moment; tu — and; citrakūṭaṃ — to Citrakūṭa; sa — that; rāghavaḥ — scion of Raghu (Bharata); mandākinīm — the Mandākinī; anuprāptas — reached; taṃ janaṃ — those people; cedam — and this; abravīt — said

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.