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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.15.31
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
3.15.31
jitaḥ svargas tava bhrātrā bharatena mahātmanā
vanastham api tāpasye yas tvām anuvidhīyate
Heaven has been won by your great-souled brother Bharata, who, though you dwell in the forest, conforms himself to you in the ascetic's life.
Words: jitaḥ — won, conquered; svargas — heaven; tava — your; bhrātrā — by (your) brother; bharatena — by Bharata; mahātmanā — the great-souled; vanastham — dwelling in the forest; api — although, even; tāpasye — in ascetic practice; yas — who; tvām — you; anuvidhīyate — conforms himself, models himself (after)
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.