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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.69.32
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
3.69.32
tasyāṃ vasati sugrīvaś caturbhiḥ saha vānaraiḥ
kadā cic chikhare tasya parvatasyāvatiṣṭhate
In it dwells Sugrīva with four monkeys; sometimes he takes his stand upon the peak of that mountain.
Words: tasyāṃ — in it; vasati — dwells; sugrīvaś — Sugrīva; caturbhiḥ — with four; saha — together with; vānaraiḥ — monkeys; kadā — at some time; cic — -ever; chikhare — on the peak; tasya — of that; parvatasyāvatiṣṭhate — stands upon the mountain
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.