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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.29
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
3.33.29
tasya tāṃ sahasā śākhāṃ bhāreṇa patagottamaḥ
suparṇaḥ parṇabahulāṃ babhañjātha mahābalaḥ
That best of birds, mighty Suparṇa, then suddenly broke off by his weight that leaf-laden branch of the tree.
Words: tasya — of it (the tree); tāṃ — that; sahasā — suddenly; śākhāṃ — branch; bhāreṇa — by (his) weight; patagottamaḥ — best of birds; suparṇaḥ — Suparṇa (Garuḍa); parṇabahulāṃ — leaf-laden; babhañjātha — then broke; 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.