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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.61.13

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 61: Lakṣmaṇa restrains Rāma’s anger. He rejects destroying the world for one offender and urges a search and persuasion before resorting to force

In the sequence: he proposes that they search together, with the paramarṣis’ help, through oceans, mountains, forests, caves, lakes, and even the deva- and gandharva-lokas until they identify the abductor

3.61.13

samudraṃ ca viceṣyāmaḥ parvatāṃś ca vanāni ca
guhāś ca vividhā ghorā nalinīḥ pārvatīś ca ha

We shall search the ocean, the mountains and the forests, the caves manifold and dreadful, the lotus-ponds, and the mountain streams.

Words: samudraṃ ca — and the ocean; viceṣyāmaḥ — we shall search; parvatāṃś ca — and the mountains; vanāni ca — and the forests; guhāś ca — and the caves; vividhā — manifold, various; ghorā — dreadful; nalinīḥ — lotus-ponds; pārvatīś ca ha — and the mountain streams

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.