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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.32
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
3.10.32
manoratho mahān eṣa hṛdi saṃparivartate
yad ahaṃ taṃ munivaraṃ śuśrūṣeyam api svayam
This great wish keeps turning in my heart: that I might myself wait in service upon that best of sages.”
Words: manoratho — the wish, heart's desire; mahān — great; eṣa — this; hṛdi — in the heart; saṃparivartate — keeps turning, revolves; yad — that; ahaṃ — I; taṃ — that; munivaraṃ — best of sages; śuśrūṣeyam — I would serve, wait upon; api — even, also; svayam — myself
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.