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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.15.37
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: they reach the Godāvarī and bathe → they perform water-tarpaṇa for the pitṛs and daivatas, then praise the risen Sūrya and the devatās
3.15.37
ity evaṃ vilapaṃs tatra prāpya godāvarīṃ nadīm
cakre 'bhiṣekaṃ kākutsthaḥ sānujaḥ saha sītayā
Lamenting thus there, and having reached the Godāvarī river, Kākutstha, with his younger brother and with Sītā, performed his ablution.
Words: ity evaṃ — thus, in this way; vilapaṃs — lamenting; tatra — there; prāpya — having reached; godāvarīṃ — the Godāvarī; nadīm — river; cakre — made, performed; 'bhiṣekaṃ — the ablution, bathing; kākutsthaḥ — Kākutstha (descendant of Kakutstha); sānujaḥ — with his younger brother; saha sītayā — together with Sītā
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.