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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.37
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: he directs them four yojanas south to Agastya's brother's hermitage, where they should spend a night, and then another yojana south to Agastya
3.10.37
sthalaprāye vanoddeśe pippalīvanaśobhite
bahupuṣpaphale ramye nānāśakuninādite
on a mostly level tract of the forest, graced with groves of long-pepper, lovely with abundant flowers and fruit, and loud with the cries of many birds.
Words: sthalaprāye — on a mostly level (spot); vanoddeśe — in a tract of the forest; pippalīvanaśobhite — graced with long-pepper groves; bahupuṣpaphale — with abundant flowers and fruit; ramye — lovely; nānāśakuninādite — resounding with various birds
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.