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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.23
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
3.33.23
puṣpāṇi ca tamālasya gulmāni maricasya ca
muktānāṃ ca samūhāni śuṣyamāṇāni tīrataḥ
and the blossoms of the tamāla, and the bushes of pepper, and heaps of pearls drying upon the shore,
Words: puṣpāṇi ca — and the flowers; tamālasya — of the tamāla tree; gulmāni — bushes, clusters; maricasya ca — and of pepper; muktānāṃ ca — and of pearls; samūhāni — heaps, masses; śuṣyamāṇāni — being dried; tīrataḥ — upon the shore
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.