Araṇya Kāṇḍa 13: Jaṭāyu’s offer · 3.13.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.13.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 13: Jaṭāyu’s offer. Daśaratha’s vulture friend recounts the ancestry of Devas, animals and humankind, identifies his own lineage and offers to guard Sītā

In the sequence: On the way, the brothers see a huge vulture and initially mistake him for a rākṣasa

3.13.1

atha pañcavaṭīṃ gacchann antarā raghunandanaḥ
āsasāda mahākāyaṃ gṛdhraṃ bhīmaparākramam

Then, as he was going toward Pañcavaṭī, Rāghava, the delight of Raghu, came upon along the way a huge-bodied vulture of terrible prowess.

Words: atha — then; pañcavaṭīṃ — to Pañcavaṭī; gacchann — going; antarā — on the way, in between; raghunandanaḥ — the delight of Raghu; āsasāda — came upon, approached; mahākāyaṃ — huge-bodied; gṛdhraṃ — a vulture; bhīmaparākramam — of terrible prowess

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.