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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.28

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: one day Rāma asks where Agastya lives: he has often heard of the maharṣi and longs to visit, but does not know the location in the vast forest

3.10.28

athāśramastho vinayāt kadā cit taṃ mahāmunim
upāsīnaḥ sa kākutsthaḥ sutīkṣṇam idam abravīt

Then one day, abiding in the hermitage, that scion of Kakutstha, humbly attending upon the great sage Sutīkṣṇa, said this to him:

Words: athāśramastho — then, dwelling in the hermitage; vinayāt — out of humility; kadā cit — at some time, one day; taṃ — that; mahāmunim — great sage; upāsīnaḥ — attending upon, sitting near; sa — he; kākutsthaḥ — the descendant of Kakutstha; sutīkṣṇam — to Sutīkṣṇa; idam — this; abravīt — said

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.