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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.63.6
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 63: Discovery of the wounded Jaṭāyu. Rāma mistakes him for Sītā’s killer, Jaṭāyu names Rāvaṇa and explains the wreckage, the brothers embrace him
In the sequence: Lakṣmaṇa recommends searching Janasthāna's woods, ravines, mountain strongholds, and caves → the brothers resume the search together
3.63.6
guhāś ca vividhā ghorā nānāmṛgagaṇākulāḥ
āvāsāḥ kiṃnarāṇāṃ ca gandharvabhavanāni ca
“and manifold dreadful caves crowded with troops of various beasts, and dwellings of kiṃnaras and abodes of gandharvas.
Words: guhāś — caves; ca — and; vividhā — manifold, various; ghorā — dreadful; nānāmṛgagaṇākulāḥ — crowded with troops of various beasts; āvāsāḥ — dwellings; kiṃnarāṇāṃ — of the kiṃnaras; ca — and; gandharvabhavanāni — abodes of the gandharvas; ca — and
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.