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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.15.17
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 15: Rāma’s winter bath in the Godāvarī. Lakṣmaṇa describes cold water and imagines Bharata’s Sarayū bath, Rāma bathes with Sītā & Lakṣmaṇa and offers water
In the sequence: mist veils the woods and grain fields, cranes call, and ripe rice bends beneath its golden grain
3.15.17
kharjūrapuṣpākṛtibhiḥ śirobhiḥ pūrṇataṇḍulaiḥ
śobhante kiṃ cidālambāḥ śālayaḥ kanakaprabhāḥ
With their heads shaped like date-palm blossoms and full of grain, the rice-plants, slightly bending, gleam gold-hued.
Words: kharjūrapuṣpākṛtibhiḥ — of the form of date-palm blossoms; śirobhiḥ — with (their) heads (ears); pūrṇataṇḍulaiḥ — full of grain; śobhante — gleam, are beautiful; kiṃ — a little (with cid); cidālambāḥ — somewhat bending down; śālayaḥ — the rice-plants; kanakaprabhāḥ — gold-hued
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.