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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.16

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

3.6.16

ayam evāśramo rāma guṇavān ramyatām iha
ṛṣisaṃghānucaritaḥ sadā mūlaphalair yutaḥ

“This very hermitage, O Rāma, is excellent; take your delight here — frequented by throngs of seers, ever furnished with roots and fruits.

Words: ayam — this; evāśramo — very hermitage; rāma — O Rāma; guṇavān — excellent, endowed with virtues; ramyatām — let it be delighted in, take delight; iha — here; ṛṣisaṃghānucaritaḥ — frequented by throngs of seers; sadā — ever; mūlaphalair — with roots and fruits; yutaḥ — furnished

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.