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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.80

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 describes Agastya's protection of the southern region and his command restraining the Vindhya mountain from growing across the sun's path

3.10.80

tasyedam āśramapadaṃ prabhāvād yasya rākṣasaiḥ
dig iyaṃ dakṣiṇā trāsād dṛśyate nopabhujyate

This is the hermitage of him by whose power this southern quarter, out of dread, is (only) looked upon by the rākṣasas and not enjoyed.

Words: tasyedam — this his; āśramapadaṃ — hermitage; prabhāvād — by the power; yasya — of whom; rākṣasaiḥ — by the rākṣasas; dig — the quarter; iyaṃ — this; dakṣiṇā — southern; trāsād — out of dread; dṛśyate — is (merely) looked at; nopabhujyate — is not enjoyed

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.