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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.10.90

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

3.10.90

atra siddhā mahātmāno vimānaiḥ sūryasaṃnibhaiḥ
tyaktvā dehān navair dehaiḥ svaryātāḥ paramarṣayaḥ

Here great-souled siddhas and supreme seers, casting off their bodies, have gone to heaven in new bodies, in celestial cars bright as the sun.

Words: atra — here; siddhā — siddhas; mahātmāno — great-souled; vimānaiḥ — in celestial cars; sūryasaṃnibhaiḥ — bright as the sun; tyaktvā — having cast off; dehān — the bodies; navair — with new; dehaiḥ — with bodies; svaryātāḥ — gone to heaven; paramarṣayaḥ — supreme seers

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.