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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.28.14

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 28: Story of Siddhāśrama: Vāmana’s three strides. Viśvāmitra recounts Vāmana’s three strides and the restoration of Indra’s realm, then begins his observance with the brothers as guards

In the sequence: he tells Rāma to regard it as his own home too

1.28.14

adya gacchāmahe rāma siddhāśramam anuttamam
tad āśramapadaṃ tāta tavāpy etad yathā mama

Today, Rāma, we shall go to the peerless Siddhāśrama; that hermitage-place, my dear, is yours as much as mine.

Words: adya — today; gacchāmahe — we shall go; rāma — O Rāma; siddhāśramam — Siddhāśrama; anuttamam — peerless; tad — that; āśramapadaṃ — hermitage-place; tāta — my dear, my child; tavāpy — yours too; etad — this; yathā — just as; mama — mine

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.