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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.69.30
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: Sugrīva and his four companions live in a difficult-to-enter cave closed by a stone slab, with a pool near its eastern entrance; sometimes they stay on the summit
3.69.30
rāma tasya tu śailasya mahatī śobhate guhā
śilāpidhānā kākutstha duḥkhaṃ cāsyāḥ praveśanam
O Rāma, a great cave shines on that mountain, closed by a stone slab, O Kākutstha, and entrance into it is hard.
Words: rāma — Rāma; tasya — of that; tu — and, but; śailasya — of the mountain; mahatī — great (f.); śobhate — shines, is resplendent; guhā — cave; śilāpidhānā — closed by a stone slab; kākutstha — Kākutstha; duḥkhaṃ — hard, difficult; cāsyāḥ — and to it; praveśanam — entrance
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.