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# The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki 2.65.4

Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa 2.65.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.65.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki.2.65.4)

veginīṃ ca kuliṅgākhyāṃ hrādinīṃ parvatāvṛtām  
yamunāṃ prāpya saṃtīrṇo balam āśvāsayat tadā

> Then Bharat's face was eastward bent  
> As from the royal town he went.  
> He reached Sudámá's farther side,  
> And glorious, gazed upon the tide;  
> Passed Hládiní, and saw her toss  
> Her westering billows hard to cross.  
> Then old Ikshváku's famous son  
> O'er S'atadrú his passage won,  
> Near Ailadhána on the strand,  
> And came to Aparparyat's land.  
> O'er S'ilás flood he hurried fast,  
> Akurvatí's fair stream he passed,  
> Crossed o'er A'gneya's rapid rill,  
> And S'alyakartan onward still.  
> S'ilávahá's swift stream he eyed,  
> True to his vows and purified.  
> Then crossed the lofty hills, and stood  
> In Chaitraratha's mighty wood.  
> He reached the confluence where meet  
> Sarasvatí and Gangá fleet,  
> And through Bhárunda forest, spread  
> Northward of Víramatsya, sped.  
> He sought Kalinda's child, who fills  
> The soul with joy, begirt by hills,  
> Reached Yamuná and passing o'er,  
> Rested his army on the shore:  
> He gave his horses food and rest,  
> Bathed reeking limb and drooping crest.  
> They drank their fill and bathed them there,  
> And water for their journey bare.  
> Thence through a mighty wood he sped  
> All wild and uninhabited,  
> As in fair chariot through the skies,  
> Most fair in shape a Storm-God flies.  
> At Ans'udhána Gangá, hard  
> To cross, his onward journey barred,  
> So turning quickly thence he came  
> To Prágvat's city dear to fame.  
> There having gained the farther side  
> To Kutikoshtiká he hied:  
> The stream he crossed, and onward then  
> To Dharmavardhan brought his men.  
> Thence, leaving Toran on the north.  
> To Jambuprastha journeyed forth.  
> — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1870, The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse

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## Translations (1)

- [The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki~en-griffith.2.71.p1.1) — Ralph T. H. Griffith 1870, English

## Other recensions (2)

- [Critical edition, Ayodhyā- and Araṇyakāṇḍa (revised e-text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki*crit-revised.2.65.4) — Sanskrit
- [Southern recension](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki*southern.2.65.4) — Sanskrit

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