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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.13

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 10: Ten years among the hermitages. Māṇḍakarṇi’s lake music is explained, years of visits lead toward Agastya, Rāma recounts his digestion of Vātāpi

In the sequence: he recounts how Māṇḍakarṇi spent ten thousand years in the water living on air → the Devas, fearing that he sought one of their positions, sent five apsarases to interrupt his austerities

3.10.13

tataḥ pravyathitāḥ sarve devāḥ sāgnipurogamāḥ
abruvan vacanaṃ sarve paraspara samāgatāḥ
asmakaṃ kasya cit sthānam eṣa prārthayate muniḥ

Then all the gods, greatly alarmed, led by Agni, having gathered together, said to one another: “This sage is aspiring to the place of one or other of us.”

Words: tataḥ — then; pravyathitāḥ — greatly alarmed, agitated; sarve — all; devāḥ — the gods; sāgnipurogamāḥ — led by Agni; abruvan — said; vacanaṃ — words, speech; sarve — all; paraspara — one another; samāgatāḥ — gathered together; asmakaṃ — of us; kasya cit — of some one; sthānam — the place, station; eṣa — this; prārthayate — aspires to, seeks; muniḥ — the sage

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.