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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.69.29

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: elephants frequent the lake and surrounding woods

3.69.29

te tatra pītvā pānīyaṃ vimalaṃ śītam avyayam
nivṛttāḥ saṃvigāhante vanāni vanagocarāḥ

They, having drunk there the pure, cool, unfailing water, turn back and plunge into the woods, those forest-dwellers.

Words: te — they; tatra — there; pītvā — having drunk; pānīyaṃ — water, drink; vimalaṃ — pure, spotless; śītam — cool; avyayam — unfailing, imperishable; nivṛttāḥ — turned back, returned; saṃvigāhante — plunge into, enter; vanāni — woods, forests; vanagocarāḥ — forest-dwellers

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.