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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.39

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

3.10.39

tatraikāṃ rajanīm uṣya prabhāte rāma gamyatām
dakṣiṇāṃ diśam āsthāya vanakhaṇḍasya pārśvataḥ

Having passed a single night there, in the morning, Rāma, you should proceed, holding to the southern direction, along the side of the woodland tract.

Words: tatraikāṃ — there one; rajanīm — night; uṣya — having passed, dwelt; prabhāte — at dawn; rāma — O Rāma; gamyatām — let it be gone, proceed; dakṣiṇāṃ — southern; diśam — direction; āsthāya — having taken to, keeping to; vanakhaṇḍasya — of the woodland tract; pārśvataḥ — along the side

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.