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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.69.31

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

3.69.31

tasyā guhāyāḥ prāgdvāre mahāñ śītodako hradaḥ
bahumūlaphalo ramyo nānānagasamāvṛtaḥ

At the eastern door of that cave is a great pool of cool water, rich in roots and fruits, delightful, encircled by trees of many kinds.

Words: tasyā — of that; guhāyāḥ — of the cave; prāgdvāre — at the eastern door; mahāñ — great; śītodako — cool-watered; hradaḥ — pool, lake; bahumūlaphalo — rich in roots and fruits; ramyo — delightful; nānānagasamāvṛtaḥ — encircled by various trees

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.