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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.93.7

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

2.93.7

gacchan eva mahābāhur dyutimān bharatas tadā
śatrughnaṃ cābravīd dhṛṣṭas tān amātyāṃś ca sarvaśaḥ

As he went on, the mighty-armed, splendid Bharata then, delighted, spoke to Śatrughna and to all those ministers.

Words: gacchan — going; eva — even; mahābāhur — the mighty-armed; dyutimān — splendid, radiant; bharatas — Bharata; tadā — then; śatrughnaṃ — Śatrughna; cābravīd — and said; dhṛṣṭas — delighted, eager; tān — those; amātyāṃś — ministers; ca — and; sarvaśaḥ — all, altogether

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.