Araṇya Kāṇḍa 68: Kabandha advises friendship with Sugrīva · 3.68.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.68.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 68: Kabandha advises friendship with Sugrīva. Restored by cremation, he urges a pledge before fire and explains how the two can help each other

In the sequence: The brothers prepare the fire in a mountain cleft, and Lakṣmaṇa kindles the pyre all around

3.68.1

evam uktau tu tau vīrau kabandhena nareśvarau
giripradaram āsādya pāvakaṃ visasarjatuḥ

Thus addressed by Kabandha, the two heroic lords of men, reaching a mountain-cleft, set a fire ablaze.

Words: evam — thus; uktau — addressed (dual); tu — and; tau — the two; vīrau — heroes (dual); kabandhena — by Kabandha; nareśvarau — lords of men (dual); giripradaram — a mountain-cleft; āsādya — having reached; pāvakaṃ — fire; visasarjatuḥ — the two set loose, kindled

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.