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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.15.29

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 praises Bharata's gentleness, self-restraint, and wholehearted adoption of his brother's life of tapas

3.15.29

padmapatrekṣaṇaḥ śyāmaḥ śrīmān nirudaro mahān
dharmajñaḥ satyavādī ca hrī niṣedho jitendriyaḥ

Lotus-petal-eyed, dark-hued, glorious, slender-waisted and lofty, a knower of dharma, truthful, restrained by modesty, master of his senses,

Words: padmapatrekṣaṇaḥ — lotus-petal-eyed; śyāmaḥ — dark-hued; śrīmān — glorious, majestic; nirudaro — slender-waisted (lit. lean-bellied); mahān — great, tall; dharmajñaḥ — a knower of dharma; satyavādī — truthful, truth-speaking; ca — and; hrī niṣedho — restrained by modesty; jitendriyaḥ — having conquered the senses

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.