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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.61.14

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 61: Lakṣmaṇa restrains Rāma’s anger. He rejects destroying the world for one offender and urges a search and persuasion before resorting to force

In the sequence: he proposes that they search together, with the paramarṣis’ help, through oceans, mountains, forests, caves, lakes, and even the deva- and gandharva-lokas until they identify the abductor

3.61.14

devagandharvalokāṃś ca viceṣyāmaḥ samāhitāḥ
yāvan nādhigamiṣyāmas tava bhāryāpahāriṇam

With minds intent we shall search even the worlds of the gods and gandharvas, until we track down the one who abducted your wife.

Words: devagandharvalokāṃś ca — and the worlds of gods and gandharvas; viceṣyāmaḥ — we shall search; samāhitāḥ — composed, with concentrated minds; yāvan — until; nādhigamiṣyāmas — we shall not find; tava — your; bhāryāpahāriṇam — the abductor of your wife

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.