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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.19

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

3.33.19

pāṇḍurāṇi viśālāni divyamālyayutāni ca
tūryagītābhijuṣṭāni vimānāni samantataḥ

and on every side aerial cars, white and spacious, hung with divine garlands and filled with instrumental music and song,

Words: pāṇḍurāṇi — white, pale; viśālāni — spacious; divyamālyayutāni ca — and hung with divine garlands; tūryagītābhijuṣṭāni — filled with instruments and song; vimānāni — aerial cars, celestial palaces; samantataḥ — on every side

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.