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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.67

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: As Rāma finishes the account, evening falls → the brothers worship at twilight, enter Agastya's brother's hermitage, and spend the night after eating roots and fruit

3.10.67

upāsya paścimāṃ saṃdhyāṃ saha bhrātrā yathāvidhi
praviveśāśramapadaṃ tam ṛṣiṃ cābhyavādayan

Having with his brother worshipped the evening twilight according to rule, he entered the hermitage and saluted that seer.

Words: upāsya — having worshipped, attended; paścimāṃ — the western, evening; saṃdhyāṃ — twilight; saha bhrātrā — together with his brother; yathāvidhi — according to rule; praviveśāśramapadaṃ — entered the hermitage; tam — that; ṛṣiṃ — seer; cābhyavādayan — and saluted

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.