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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.18

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 says that he would shoot the deer gathering there and that this might distress the maharṣi, so he does not think a long stay appropriate

3.6.18

tac chrutvā vacanaṃ tasya maharṣer lakṣmaṇāgrajaḥ
uvāca vacanaṃ dhīro vikṛṣya saśaraṃ dhanuḥ

Hearing that speech of the great seer, the elder brother of Lakṣmaṇa (Rāma), steadfast, drawing his bow with an arrow, spoke these words:

Words: tac — that; chrutvā — having heard; vacanaṃ — speech; tasya — his; maharṣer — of the great seer; lakṣmaṇāgrajaḥ — the elder brother of Lakṣmaṇa; uvāca — spoke; vacanaṃ — words; dhīro — steadfast; vikṛṣya — having drawn; saśaraṃ — with an arrow; dhanuḥ — bow

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.