Ramayana

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स्वस्ति प्राप्नुहि भद्रं ते साधु याम नरर्षभ । अगस्त्यस्याश्रमपदं द्रष्टुमिच्छाम राघव ॥ 7-76-16 ॥

May you attain well-being, and blessings be upon you; let us go now, O bull among men. We wish to behold the hermitage of Agastya, O Raghava.

english translation

तस्य दीक्षा समाप्ता हि ब्रह्मर्षेः सुमहाद्युतेः । द्वादशं हि गतं वर्षं जलशय्यां समासतः ॥ 7-76-17 ॥

For the consecrated vow of that Brahmana-sage of vast splendor is now completed; the twelfth year has passed while he lay reposing upon the waters.

english translation

काकुत्स्थ तद्गमिष्यामो मुनिं समभिनन्दितुम् । त्वं चाप्यागच्छ भद्रं ते द्रष्टुं तमृषिसत्तमम् ॥ 7-76-18 ॥

O Kakutstha, we shall go there to greet that sage with joy; and do you also come, blessings be upon you, to behold that most excellent of seers.

english translation

स तथेति प्रतिज्ञाय देवानां रघुनन्दनः । आरुरोह विमानं तं पुष्पकं हेमभूषितम् ॥ 7-76-19 ॥

Having promised the gods, "So be it," the delight of the Raghus mounted that Pushpaka chariot adorned with gold.

english translation

ततो देवाः प्रयातास्ते विमानैर्बहुविस्तरैः । रामो ऽप्यनुजगामाशु कुम्भयोनेस्तपोवनम् ॥ 7-76-20 ॥

Then those gods set forth in their many spacious aerial chariots, and Rama too swiftly followed to the penance-grove of the pitcher-born sage Agastya.

english translation