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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.9.15

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 9: Story of Ṛṣyaśṛṅga: Courtesans, rain and marriage. Courtesans lure Ṛṣyaśṛṅga from his father’s forest hermitage, rain ends Aṅga’s drought and Romapāda gives him Śāntā in marriage

In the sequence: attracted by their unfamiliar appearance, he names himself and his father and invites them home

1.9.15

ihāśramapado 'smākaṃ samīpe śubhadarśanāḥ
kariṣye vo 'tra pūjāṃ vai sarveṣāṃ vidhipūrvakam

Here nearby is our hermitage-site, O fair-faced ones; there I shall do honour to you all, according to due rule.”

Words: ihāśramapado — here (is) the hermitage-site; 'smākaṃ — our; samīpe — nearby, close; śubhadarśanāḥ — O fair-faced ones; kariṣye — I shall do, make; vo — to you; 'tra — here; pūjāṃ — honour, hospitality; vai — indeed; sarveṣāṃ — to all; vidhipūrvakam — according to due rule

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.