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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.33.31
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: to save them, he carried the branch away along with his prey → after freeing the munis, he used the branch to destroy a Niṣāda territory and ate his prey
3.33.31
teṣāṃ dayārthaṃ garuḍas tāṃ śākhāṃ śatayojanām
jagāmādāya vegena tau cobhau gajakacchapau
Out of compassion for them, Garuḍa flew off swiftly, bearing that hundred-yojana branch and both the elephant and the tortoise.
Words: teṣāṃ — of, for them; dayārthaṃ — for the sake of compassion; garuḍas — Garuḍa; tāṃ śākhāṃ — that branch; śatayojanām — a hundred yojanas long; jagāmādāya — went, having taken; vegena — swiftly, with speed; tau cobhau — and both those; gajakacchapau — the elephant and the tortoise
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.