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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.69.23
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 69: Kabandha’s directions to Pampā. He describes food and cool water, Śabarī’s hermitage and unfading flowers, then Sugrīva’s refuge on Ṛṣyamūka
In the sequence: he directs them to the protected hermitage and grove on Pampā's western shore.
3.69.23
tasmin nandanasaṃkāśe devāraṇyopame vane
nānāvihagasaṃkīrṇe raṃsyase rāma nirvṛtaḥ
In that forest, like the Nandana garden, resembling the woods of the gods, thronged with birds of many kinds, you will take your delight, O Rāma, at peace.
Words: tasmin — in that; nandanasaṃkāśe — resembling Nandana; devāraṇyopame — like the forest of the gods; vane — in the forest; nānāvihagasaṃkīrṇe — thronged with various birds; raṃsyase — you will delight; rāma — Rāma; nirvṛtaḥ — content, at ease
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.