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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.27.17

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 27: Divine weapons: Rāma learns their withdrawal. Rāma learns their withdrawal, permits the embodied powers to depart and asks about the beautiful hermitage ahead

In the sequence: continuing onward, Rāma notices a beautiful grove gleaming like a cloud beside a mountain, full of deer and sweet-voiced birds → contrasting it with the terrifying forest they have left, he asks whether this is the hermitage troubled by the rākṣasas.

1.27.17

niḥsṛtāḥ sma muniśreṣṭha kāntārād romaharṣaṇāt
anayā tv avagacchāmi deśasya sukhavattayā

We have come out, O best of sages, from that hair-raising wilderness; and by this pleasantness of the region I perceive that we are near a dwelling.

Words: niḥsṛtāḥ — come out, emerged; sma — indeed (particle marking the past); muniśreṣṭha — O best of sages; kāntārād — from the wilderness; romaharṣaṇāt — hair-raising, terrifying; anayā — by this; tv — indeed; avagacchāmi — I perceive, understand; deśasya — of the region; sukhavattayā — by the pleasantness

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.