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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.21

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 performs evening worship and settles for the night → Sutīkṣṇa personally gives the brothers food suitable for tapasvins.

3.6.21

tam evam uktvā varadaṃ rāmaḥ saṃdhyām upāgamat
anvāsya paścimāṃ saṃdhyāṃ tatra vāsam akalpayat

Having spoken thus to that boon-giver, Rāma went to the twilight (worship); and having attended to the evening twilight, he arranged for a stay there.

Words: tam — to him; evam — thus; uktvā — having spoken; varadaṃ — the boon-giver; rāmaḥ — Rāma; saṃdhyām — the twilight (worship); upāgamat — went to; anvāsya — having attended to, worshipped; paścimāṃ — the evening (western); saṃdhyāṃ — twilight; tatra — there; vāsam — a stay; akalpayat — arranged

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.