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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.27.18

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.

1.27.18

sarvaṃ me śaṃsa bhagavan kasyāśramapadaṃ tv idam
saṃprāptā yatra te pāpā brahmaghnā duṣṭacāriṇaḥ

Tell me all, O venerable one: whose hermitage is this, where those sinful, brahmin-slaying evildoers have come?”

Words: sarvaṃ — everything, all; me — to me; śaṃsa — tell, relate; bhagavan — O venerable one; kasyāśramapadaṃ — whose hermitage; tv — indeed; idam — this; saṃprāptā — have arrived, come; yatra — where; te — those; pāpā — sinful (ones); brahmaghnā — slayers of brahmins; duṣṭacāriṇaḥ — evil-doers, of wicked conduct

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.