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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.93.4

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: he notices a leaf hut, gathered flowers, firewood, and fuel stored against the cold

2.93.4

gacchann evātha bharatas tāpasālayasaṃsthitām
bhrātuḥ parṇakuṭīṃ śrīmān uṭajaṃ ca dadarśa ha

As he went on, the glorious Bharata beheld his brother's leaf-hut set within the ascetics' settlement, and the hermitage.

Words: gacchann — going; evātha — even then; bharatas — Bharata; tāpasālayasaṃsthitām — situated in the ascetics' abode; bhrātuḥ — of his brother; parṇakuṭīṃ — the leaf-hut; śrīmān — the glorious one; uṭajaṃ — the hermitage-hut; ca — and; dadarśa — saw; ha — indeed

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.