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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.25

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 95: Rāma’s offerings for Daśaratha. Hearing of his death, Rāma collapses, then offers Mandākinī water and iṅgudī paste with jujube as his own forest fare

In the sequence: supported by Sumantra, he goes down to the Mandākinī and, facing south, offers water to his father

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te sutīrthāṃ tataḥ kṛcchrād upāgamya yaśasvinaḥ
nadīṃ mandākinīṃ ramyāṃ sadā puṣpitakānanām

Then those illustrious ones, having with difficulty reached the lovely Mandākinī river with its fair fords and ever-flowering groves,

Words: te — those; sutīrthāṃ — with fair fords; tataḥ — then; kṛcchrād — with difficulty; upāgamya — having reached; yaśasvinaḥ — illustrious ones; nadīṃ — river; mandākinīṃ — Mandākinī; ramyāṃ — lovely; sadā — ever; puṣpitakānanām — with flowering groves

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.