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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.28
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: The account recalls how Garuḍa landed there carrying an elephant and tortoise for food, and his weight broke a great branch above a gathering of ṛṣis
3.33.28
samantād yasya tāḥ śākhāḥ śatayojanam āyatāḥ
yasya hastinam ādāya mahākāyaṃ ca kaccapam
bhakṣārthaṃ garuḍaḥ śākhām ājagāma mahābalaḥ
whose branches stretched a hundred yojanas all around, and to a branch of which the mighty Garuḍa once came, seizing an elephant and a huge tortoise for his food.
Words: samantād — all around; yasya — whose; tāḥ śākhāḥ — those branches; śatayojanam — a hundred yojanas; āyatāḥ — stretched, extended; yasya — of which; hastinam — an elephant; ādāya — having seized, taken; mahākāyaṃ — huge-bodied; ca — and; kaccapam — a tortoise; bhakṣārthaṃ — for the sake of food; garuḍaḥ — Garuḍa; śākhām — to the branch; ājagāma — came; mahābalaḥ — the mighty one
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.