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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.52

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 tells Lakṣmaṇa how Agastya made this region safe

3.10.52

nigṛhya tarasā mṛtyuṃ lokānāṃ hitakāmyayā
yasya bhrātrā kṛteyaṃ dik śaraṇyā puṇyakarmaṇā

— by whose brother, of holy deeds, forcibly restraining death, out of desire for the good of the worlds, this quarter was made a refuge.

Words: nigṛhya — having restrained, checked; tarasā — forcibly, by strength; mṛtyuṃ — death; lokānāṃ — of the worlds; hitakāmyayā — out of desire for (their) welfare; yasya — of whom; bhrātrā — by the brother; kṛteyaṃ — was made, this; dik — the quarter, direction; śaraṇyā — a refuge, safe; puṇyakarmaṇā — of holy deeds

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.