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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.6.9
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 embraces him and says that he too has delayed leaving his body because he was waiting to see Rāma
3.6.9
pratīkṣamāṇas tvām eva nārohe 'haṃ mahāyaśaḥ
devalokam ito vīra dehaṃ tyaktvā mahītale
Awaiting you alone, O greatly glorious one, I have not ascended from here to the world of the gods, O hero, by casting off my body upon the earth.
Words: pratīkṣamāṇas — awaiting; tvām — you; eva — alone; nārohe — I do not ascend; 'haṃ — I; mahāyaśaḥ — O greatly glorious one; devalokam — to the world of the gods; ito — from here; vīra — O hero; dehaṃ — body; tyaktvā — having cast off; mahītale — upon the earth
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.