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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.74

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

3.10.74

hastihastair vimṛditān vānarair upaśobhitān
mattaiḥ śakunisaṃghaiś ca śataśaḥ pratināditān

trees crushed by the trunks of elephants, graced with monkeys, and made to resound on every side by hundreds of flocks of exultant birds.

Words: hastihastair — by the trunks of elephants; vimṛditān — crushed, trampled; vānarair — by monkeys; upaśobhitān — graced, adorned; mattaiḥ — by exultant, intoxicated; śakunisaṃghaiś — by flocks of birds; ca — and; śataśaḥ — by the hundred; pratināditān — made to resound

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.