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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.10

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: he recalls hearing of Rāma's exile and offers him, Sītā, and Lakṣmaṇa the heavenly worlds earned by his austerities

3.6.10

citrakūṭam upādāya rājyabhraṣṭo 'si me śrutaḥ
ihopayātaḥ kākutstho devarājaḥ śatakratuḥ
sarvāṃl lokāñ jitān āha mama puṇyena karmaṇā

I have heard that, having settled at Citrakūṭa, you were deprived of your kingdom, O Kākutstha now arrived here; the king of the gods, Śatakratu, declared that all the worlds had been won by my meritorious deed.

Words: citrakūṭam — Citrakūṭa; upādāya — having taken up (residence); rājyabhraṣṭo — deprived of your kingdom; 'si — you are; me — by me; śrutaḥ — heard; ihopayātaḥ — arrived here; kākutstho — O Kākutstha; devarājaḥ — the king of the gods; śatakratuḥ — Śatakratu (Indra); sarvāṃl — all; lokāñ — worlds; jitān — won; āha — declared; mama — my; puṇyena — by meritorious; karmaṇā — deed

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.