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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.73

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: the next morning Rāma takes leave to visit Agastya and follows the indicated road

3.10.73

puṣpitān puṣpitāgrābhir latābhir anuveṣṭitān
dadarśa rāmaḥ śataśas tatra kāntārapādapān

Rāma saw there in their hundreds the forest trees in blossom, entwined with flowering-tipped creepers.

Words: puṣpitān — in blossom, flowering; puṣpitāgrābhir — with flower-tipped; latābhir — with creepers; anuveṣṭitān — entwined, wound about; dadarśa — saw; rāmaḥ — Rāma; śataśas — by the hundred; tatra — there; kāntārapādapān — forest trees

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.