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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.32

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: he lays out a nivāpa (food offering for the deceased) of iṅgudī paste mixed with jujube on darbha grass, explaining that he offers the food on which he himself now lives → the brothers return to the hut and embrace

2.95.32

tatas tenaiva mārgeṇa pratyuttīrya nadītaṭāt
āruroha naravyāghro ramyasānuṃ mahīdharam

Then, coming up from the riverbank by that same path, the tiger among men climbed the mountain with its lovely ridges.

Words: tatas — then; tenaiva — by that very; mārgeṇa — path; pratyuttīrya — having come up; nadītaṭāt — from the riverbank; āruroha — climbed; naravyāghro — the tiger among men; ramyasānuṃ — with lovely ridges; mahīdharam — the mountain

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.