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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.18

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

3.33.18

haṃsakrauñcaplavākīrṇaṃ sārasaiḥ saṃpraṇāditam
vaidūryaprastaraṃ ramyaṃ snigdhaṃ sāgaratejasā

strewn with swans, curlews, and waterfowl, resounding with cranes, lovely with its floor of lapis lazuli, glossy with the radiance of the sea—

Words: haṃsakrauñcaplavākīrṇaṃ — strewn with haṃsas, krauñcas, and plavas; sārasaiḥ — with sārasa cranes; saṃpraṇāditam — made to resound; vaidūryaprastaraṃ — with a floor of lapis lazuli; ramyaṃ — lovely; snigdhaṃ — glossy, smooth; sāgaratejasā — by the radiance of the sea

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.