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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.20

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

3.33.20

tapasā jitalokānāṃ kāmagāny abhisaṃpatan
gandharvāpsarasaś caiva dadarśa dhanadānujaḥ

coursing past those wish-moving cars of the ones who by austerity had won the worlds, the younger brother of Kubera beheld gandharvas and apsarases too.

Words: tapasā — by austerity; jitalokānāṃ — of those who conquered the worlds; kāmagāny — going at will (the cars); abhisaṃpatan — coursing towards, flying along; gandharvāpsarasaś caiva — and gandharvas and apsarases; dadarśa — beheld; dhanadānujaḥ — the younger brother of Kubera

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.