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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.14
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
3.33.14
atyantaniyatāhāraiḥ śobhitaṃ paramarṣibhiḥ
nāgaiḥ suparṇair gandharvaiḥ kiṃnaraiś ca sahasraśaḥ
graced by supreme sages of most abstemious diet, and by nāgas, suparṇas, gandharvas, and kinnaras in their thousands,
Words: atyantaniyatāhāraiḥ — of extremely restrained diet; śobhitaṃ — graced, adorned; paramarṣibhiḥ — by supreme sages; nāgaiḥ — by nāgas (serpent-beings); suparṇair — by suparṇas (celestial birds); gandharvaiḥ — by gandharvas; kiṃnaraiś ca — and by kinnaras; sahasraśaḥ — by the thousand
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.