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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.15

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: Sutīkṣṇa invites them to remain in this very hermitage, supplied with roots and fruit and visited by fearless deer

3.6.15

evam uktas tu rāmeṇa maharṣir lokaviśrutaḥ
abravīn madhuraṃ vākyaṃ harṣeṇa mahatāplutaḥ

Thus addressed by Rāma, the great seer, renowned in the world, flooded with great joy, spoke sweet words:

Words: evam — thus; uktas — addressed; tu — and; rāmeṇa — by Rāma; maharṣir — the great seer; lokaviśrutaḥ — renowned in the world; abravīn — spoke; madhuraṃ — sweet; vākyaṃ — words; harṣeṇa — with joy; mahatāplutaḥ — flooded with great (joy)

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.