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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.95.41

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.

2.95.41

tena vitrāsitā nāgāḥ kareṇuparivāritāḥ
āvāsayanto gandhena jagmur anyad vanaṃ tataḥ

Frightened by it, the elephants, surrounded by their she-elephants, filling the air with their scent, then went off to another forest.

Words: tena — by that; vitrāsitā — frightened; nāgāḥ — elephants; kareṇuparivāritāḥ — surrounded by she-elephants; āvāsayanto — perfuming, making fragrant; gandhena — with their scent; jagmur — went; anyad — another; vanaṃ — forest; tataḥ — then

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.