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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.12

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 33: Rāvaṇa’s flight and Garuḍa’s story. He passes the banyan of Garuḍa’s broken branch and amṛta quest, then reaches Mārīca’s hermitage

In the sequence: he passes coastal forests, hermitages, lotus ponds, nāgas, suparṇas, gandharvas, kiṃnaras, siddhas, cāraṇas and apsarases, fragrant groves, pearls, coral, and prosperous towns

3.33.12

śītamaṅgalatoyābhiḥ padminībhiḥ samantataḥ
viśālair āśramapadair vedimadbhiḥ samāvṛtam

surrounded on every side by lotus-ponds of cool, auspicious water, and by spacious hermitage-grounds furnished with altars,

Words: śītamaṅgalatoyābhiḥ — with cool, auspicious water; padminībhiḥ — with lotus-ponds; samantataḥ — on every side; viśālair — with spacious; āśramapadair — hermitage-grounds; vedimadbhiḥ — furnished with altars; samāvṛtam — surrounded

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.