Chapter 56 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 56

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 56.32

सुरम्यमासाद्य तु चित्रकूट नदी च तां माल्यवती सुतीर्थाम्। ननन्द हृष्टो मृगपक्षिजुष्टां जहौ च दुःखं पुरविप्रवासात्॥

suramyamāsādya tu citrakūṭa nadī ca tāṃ mālyavatī sutīrthām| nananda hṛṣṭo mṛgapakṣijuṣṭāṃ jahau ca duḥkhaṃ puravipravāsāt||

English Meaning

And having come to the charming Citrakuta and the river Mālyavatī furnished with excellent bathing places, and haunted by beasts and fowls, they rejoiced with glad hearts, and forsook the grief incident to their exile from the city.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)