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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.15.30

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

3.15.30

priyābhibhāṣī madhuro dīrghabāhur ariṃdamaḥ
saṃtyajya vividhān saukhyān āryaṃ sarvātmanāśritaḥ

kindly in speech, gentle, long-armed, a subduer of foes — having abandoned pleasures of every kind, he has with his whole heart taken to the noble (way of his brother).

Words: priyābhibhāṣī — speaking kindly; madhuro — sweet, gentle; dīrghabāhur — long-armed; ariṃdamaḥ — subduer of foes; saṃtyajya — having abandoned; vividhān — various, manifold; saukhyān — pleasures, comforts; āryaṃ — the noble one / the noble (path); sarvātmanāśritaḥ — having resorted (to it) with his whole self

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.