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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.38

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 10: Ten years among the hermitages. Māṇḍakarṇi’s lake music is explained, years of visits lead toward Agastya, Rāma recounts his digestion of Vātāpi

In the sequence: he directs them four yojanas south to Agastya's brother's hermitage, where they should spend a night, and then another yojana south to Agastya

3.10.38

padminyo vividhās tatra prasannasalilāḥ śivāḥ
haṃsakāraṇḍavākīrṇāś cakravākopaśobhitāḥ

There are various lotus-ponds of clear, wholesome water, strewn with swans and kāraṇḍava ducks, and graced with cakravāka geese.

Words: padminyo — lotus-ponds; vividhās — various; tatra — there; prasannasalilāḥ — of clear water; śivāḥ — wholesome, auspicious; haṃsakāraṇḍavākīrṇāś — strewn with swans and kāraṇḍava ducks; cakravākopaśobhitāḥ — graced with cakravāka geese

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.