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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.27
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 sees the vast banyan called Subhadra, associated with an earlier deed of Garuḍa.
3.33.27
anūpaṃ sindhurājasya dadarśa tridivopamam
tatrāpaśyat sa meghābhaṃ nyagrodham ṛṣibhir vṛtam
he beheld the shore of the ocean-king, resembling heaven; and there he saw a banyan tree, cloud-like, encircled by sages,
Words: anūpaṃ — the marshy shore; sindhurājasya — of the king of rivers (the ocean); dadarśa — beheld; tridivopamam — resembling heaven; tatrāpaśyat — there he saw; sa — he; meghābhaṃ — cloud-like; nyagrodham — a banyan tree; ṛṣibhir vṛtam — encircled by sages
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.