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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.60.3

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 60: Story of Viśvāmitra: Śunaḥśepa is bought for sacrifice. Indra steals Ambarīṣa’s sacrificial victim, the King purchases Śunaḥśepa after the boy’s parents reserve their eldest and youngest sons

In the sequence: Viśvāmitra tells the departing ṛṣis that the southern region has become a place of obstruction → he moves west to Puṣkara and resumes austerity on roots and fruit

1.60.3

paścimāyāṃ viśālāyāṃ puṣkareṣu mahātmanaḥ
sukhaṃ tapaś cariṣyāmaḥ paraṃ tad dhi tapovanam

'In the west, in the vast region of Puṣkara, we great-souled ones shall practise austerity in comfort; for that is a supreme penance-grove.'

Words: paścimāyāṃ — in the western (region); viśālāyāṃ — in the vast, extensive; puṣkareṣu — in the Puṣkaras (the Puṣkara region); mahātmanaḥ — the great-souled (we); sukhaṃ — comfortably, at ease; tapaś cariṣyāmaḥ — we shall practise austerity; paraṃ — supreme; tad — that; dhi — for; tapovanam — penance-grove

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.