Araṇya Kāṇḍa 6: Sutīkṣṇa’s hospitality · 3.6.2 →

Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.1

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 6: Sutīkṣṇa’s hospitality. The ṛṣi offers heavenly worlds and a forest home, Rāma declines a long stay because hunting the resident deer would distress his host

In the sequence: Rāma, Sītā, and Lakṣmaṇa travel with the brāhmaṇas across rivers and through dense forest until they reach Sutīkṣṇa's secluded hermitage

3.6.1

rāmas tu sahito bhrātrā sītayā ca paraṃtapaḥ
sutīkṣṇasyāśramapadaṃ jagāma saha tair dvijaiḥ

And Rāma, scorcher of foes, together with his brother and with Sītā, went to the hermitage of Sutīkṣṇa along with those brahmins.

Words: rāmas — Rāma; tu — and; sahito — together; bhrātrā — with his brother; sītayā — with Sītā; ca — and; paraṃtapaḥ — scorcher of foes; sutīkṣṇasyāśramapadaṃ — to the hermitage of Sutīkṣṇa; jagāma — went; saha — with; tair — those; dvijaiḥ — brahmins

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.