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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.69.2

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 69: Kabandha’s directions to Pampā. He describes food and cool water, Śabarī’s hermitage and unfading flowers, then Sugrīva’s refuge on Ṛṣyamūka

In the sequence: Kabandha points out a westward route through flowering, fruit-bearing forests and over mountains toward Pampā

3.69.2

eṣa rāma śivaḥ panthā yatraite puṣpitā drumāḥ
pratīcīṃ diśam āśritya prakāśante manoramāḥ

This, Rāma, is the auspicious path where these flowering trees, delightful, shine, keeping to the western quarter.

Words: eṣa — this; rāma — Rāma; śivaḥ — auspicious; panthā — path, road; yatraite — where these; puṣpitā — flowering; drumāḥ — trees; pratīcīṃ — western; diśam — quarter, direction; āśritya — keeping to, resorting to; prakāśante — shine, appear bright; manoramāḥ — delightful, charming

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.