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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.15.27
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: he imagines Bharata setting out with his ministers for the Sarayū at this very hour → remembering how delicately Bharata was raised, he wonders how he can bear plunging into the river in the bitter cold before dawn
3.15.27
so 'pi velām imāṃ nūnam abhiṣekārtham udyataḥ
vṛtaḥ prakṛtibhir nityaṃ prayāti sarayūṃ nadīm
He too, surely, ready at this very hour to bathe, ever surrounded by his ministers, goes forth to the Sarayū river.
Words: so 'pi — he too; velām — the time, hour; imāṃ — this; nūnam — surely, certainly; abhiṣekārtham — for the sake of bathing; udyataḥ — ready, prepared; vṛtaḥ — surrounded; prakṛtibhir — by (his) ministers, subjects; nityaṃ — ever, constantly; prayāti — goes forth; sarayūṃ — Sarayū; nadīm — river
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.