Araṇya Kāṇḍa 16: Śūrpaṇakhā’s proposal · 3.16.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.16.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 16: Śūrpaṇakhā’s proposal. Rāvaṇa’s sister asks Rāma to marry her and threatens to eat Sītā & Lakṣmaṇa so they can roam the forest together

In the sequence: After bathing and completing the morning rites, Rāma sits in the hut with Sītā and talks with Lakṣmaṇa

3.16.1

kṛtābhiṣeko rāmas tu sītā saumitrir eva ca
tasmād godāvarītīrāt tato jagmuḥ svam āśramam

Rāma, having bathed, together with Sītā and Saumitri (Lakṣmaṇa), then went from that bank of the Godāvarī back to their own hermitage.

Words: kṛtābhiṣeko — having performed his ablution; rāmas — Rāma; tu — and; sītā — Sītā; saumitrir — Saumitri (Lakṣmaṇa); eva ca — and also; tasmād — from that; godāvarītīrāt — bank of the Godāvarī; tato — then; jagmuḥ — went; svam — their own; āśramam — hermitage

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.