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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.16

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

3.33.16

divyābharaṇamālyābhir divyarūpābhir āvṛtam
krīḍā ratividhijñābhir apsarobhiḥ sahasraśaḥ

thronged by thousands of apsarases of divine form, adorned with heavenly ornaments and garlands, versed in the arts of play and love,

Words: divyābharaṇamālyābhir — with divine ornaments and garlands; divyarūpābhir — of divine form; āvṛtam — thronged, surrounded; krīḍā — play, sport (compound-initial); ratividhijñābhir — knowing the modes of love; apsarobhiḥ — by apsarases; 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.