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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.9.26

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: the women welcome him and invite him to their own supposed hermitage, promising still better hospitality → he agrees and goes with them

1.9.26

ehy āśramapadaṃ saumya asmākam iti cābruvan
tatrāpy eṣa vidhiḥ śrīmān viśeṣeṇa bhaviṣyati

“Come to our hermitage, gentle one,” they said; “there too this splendid hospitality will be found, and in fuller measure.”

Words: ehy — come; āśramapadaṃ — to the hermitage-site; saumya — O gentle one; asmākam — our; iti — thus; cābruvan — and they said; tatrāpy — there too; eṣa — this; vidhiḥ — ceremony, hospitality; śrīmān — splendid, glorious; viśeṣeṇa — especially, in fuller measure; bhaviṣyati — will be

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.