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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.24

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: they visit the munis in turn, staying for different periods—several months in some places, a year or longer in others → ten years pass in these visits

3.10.24

kva cic ca caturo māsān pañcaṣaṭ cāparān kva cit
aparatrādhikān māsān adhyardham adhikaṃ kva cit

and somewhere four months, and elsewhere five or six others, in yet another place more months, and somewhere a year and a half or more —

Words: kva cic — in some place; ca — and; caturo — four; māsān — months; pañcaṣaṭ — five (or) six; cāparān — and others; kva cit — in some place; aparatrādhikān — more, in another place; māsān — months; adhyardham — a year and a half (one and a half); adhikaṃ — more; kva cit — in some place

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.