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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.4

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, Sītā, and Lakṣmaṇa travel with the brāhmaṇas across rivers and through dense forest until they reach Sutīkṣṇa's secluded hermitage

3.6.4

praviṣṭas tu vanaṃ ghoraṃ bahupuṣpaphaladrumam
dadarśāśramam ekānte cīramālāpariṣkṛtam

Having entered the dread forest, with its trees of many flowers and fruits, he saw in a secluded spot a hermitage adorned with strings of bark-garments.

Words: praviṣṭas — having entered; tu — and; vanaṃ — forest; ghoraṃ — dread; bahupuṣpaphaladrumam — with trees of many flowers and fruits; dadarśāśramam — saw a hermitage; ekānte — in a secluded spot; cīramālāpariṣkṛtam — adorned with strings of bark-garments

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.