सर्गः ४९

In which Bharadvāja guides the weary exiles over the Yamunā by wooden raft to the great banyan and toward Chitrakūṭa

Bharadvāja follows like father and shows the way — Bharadvāja bids raft swift Kālindī Yamunā — Bids greet green Śyāma banyan of adepts — Bids walk one krōśa to blue Badarī bamboo wood — Shows pleasant fire-free path then turns back — Rāma leads Sītā first to Kālindī — Brothers bind raft and cut pleasant seat for Sītā — Rāma lifts shy Sītā onto raft and crosses Yamunā — Leave raft and greet Śyāma as Sītā prays for mothers — Walk one krōśa slaying deer to river-bank dwelling