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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.30

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

3.10.30

na tu jānāmi taṃ deśaṃ vanasyāsya mahattayā
kutrāśramapadaṃ puṇyaṃ maharṣes tasya dhīmataḥ

But because of the vastness of this forest I do not know the region — where the holy hermitage of that wise great seer may be.

Words: na — not; tu — but; jānāmi — I know; taṃ — that; deśaṃ — region, place; vanasyāsya — of this forest; mahattayā — by the vastness; kutrāśramapadaṃ — where the hermitage; puṇyaṃ — holy; maharṣes — of the great seer; tasya — that; dhīmataḥ — of the wise one

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.