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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.35
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: their cries reach the camp, and people hurry toward them → Rāma receives the grieving followers affectionately.
2.95.35
vijñāya tumulaṃ śabdaṃ trastā bharatasainikāḥ
abruvaṃś cāpi rāmeṇa bharataḥ saṃgato dhruvam
teṣām eva mahāñ śabdaḥ śocatāṃ pitaraṃ mṛtam
Hearing the tumultuous sound, Bharata's soldiers took fright and said: “Surely Bharata has met with Rāma; this great cry is theirs alone, as they mourn their dead father.”
Words: vijñāya — having perceived; tumulaṃ — tumultuous; śabdaṃ — sound; trastā — alarmed; bharatasainikāḥ — Bharata's soldiers; abruvaṃś — said; cāpi — and; rāmeṇa — with Rāma; bharataḥ — Bharata; saṃgato — has met; dhruvam — surely; teṣām — of them, theirs; eva — alone; mahāñ — great; śabdaḥ — the cry, sound; śocatāṃ — grieving; pitaraṃ — the father; mṛtam — dead
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.