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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.9.8
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: Ṛṣyaśṛṅga normally stays close to his father, but one day encounters them → singing sweetly, they approach and ask his identity and way of life
1.9.8
ṛṣiputrasya ghorasya nityam āśramavāsinaḥ
pituḥ sa nityasaṃtuṣṭo nāticakrāma cāśramāt
— the seer's son, austere, ever dwelling in the hermitage; for he, always content, never strayed far from his father's hermitage.
Words: ṛṣiputrasya — of the seer's son; ghorasya — austere, of severe penance; nityam — always; āśramavāsinaḥ — dwelling in the hermitage; pituḥ — of his father; sa — he; nityasaṃtuṣṭo — ever content; nāticakrāma — did not stray beyond; cāśramāt — and from the hermitage
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.