← 3.10.49 · Araṇya Kāṇḍa 10: Ten years among the hermitages · 3.10.51 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.50

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: they take leave and set out that day. Along the road, Rāma recognizes signs of Agastya's brother's hermitage: fruit-laden trees, the scent of long-pepper, gathered firewood, cut darbha grass, sacrificial smoke, and munis making offerings

3.10.50

vivikteṣu ca tīrtheṣu kṛtasnānā dvijātayaḥ
puṣpopahāraṃ kurvanti kusumaiḥ svayam ārjitaiḥ

And at the secluded bathing-places the twice-born, having bathed, make offerings of flowers with blossoms gathered by their own hands.

Words: vivikteṣu — in the secluded; ca — and; tīrtheṣu — at the bathing-places; kṛtasnānā — having bathed; dvijātayaḥ — the twice-born; puṣpopahāraṃ — an offering of flowers; kurvanti — make; kusumaiḥ — with blossoms; svayam — by themselves, of their own; ārjitaiḥ — gathered, acquired

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.