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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.93.6

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

2.93.6

dadarśa ca vane tasmin mahataḥ saṃcayān kṛtān
mṛgāṇāṃ mahiṣāṇāṃ ca karīṣaiḥ śītakāraṇāt

And in that forest he saw great heaps piled up from the dung of deer and buffalo, gathered against the cold.

Words: dadarśa — saw; ca — and; vane — in the forest; tasmin — that; mahataḥ — great; saṃcayān — heaps; kṛtān — made, piled; mṛgāṇāṃ — of deer; mahiṣāṇāṃ — of buffalo; ca — and; karīṣaiḥ — with dung; śītakāraṇāt — on account of the cold

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.