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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.87

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: hoping for the maharṣi's blessing, Rāma speaks of staying near him for the remaining exile and of the Devas and tapasvins who frequent his hermitage

3.10.87

atra devāḥ sagandharvāḥ siddhāś ca paramarṣayaḥ
agastyaṃ niyatāhāraṃ satataṃ paryupāsate

Here the gods together with the gandharvas, and the siddhas and the supreme seers, constantly wait upon Agastya of restrained diet.

Words: atra — here; devāḥ — the gods; sagandharvāḥ — with the gandharvas; siddhāś — the siddhas; ca — and; paramarṣayaḥ — the supreme seers; agastyaṃ — Agastya; niyatāhāraṃ — of restrained diet; satataṃ — constantly; paryupāsate — wait upon, attend

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.