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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.25

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

3.10.25

trīn māsān aṣṭamāsāṃś ca rāghavo nyavasat sukham
tathā saṃvasatas tasya munīnām āśrameṣu vai
ramataś cānukulyena yayuḥ saṃvatsarā daśa

and three months and eight months — thus Rāghava dwelt in comfort; and as he abode agreeably in the hermitages of the sages, ten years passed.

Words: trīn — three; māsān — months; aṣṭamāsāṃś — eight months; ca — and; rāghavo — Rāghava; nyavasat — dwelt; sukham — happily; tathā — thus; saṃvasatas — as he was dwelling; tasya — his, of him; munīnām — of the sages; āśrameṣu — in the hermitages; vai — indeed; ramataś — as he took pleasure; cānukulyena — and agreeably; yayuḥ — passed, went by; saṃvatsarā — years; daśa — ten

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.