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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.7.12

Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 7: Departure from Sutīkṣṇa. Rāma obtains leave to visit other hermitages and promises to return, Sītā hands the brothers their weapons

In the sequence: he describes the forests, peaceful animals, lotus ponds, and mountain cascades they will see, and asks them to return to his hermitage afterward

3.7.12

paśyāśramapadaṃ ramyaṃ daṇḍakāraṇyavāsinām
eṣāṃ tapasvināṃ vīra tapasā bhāvitātmanām

Behold, O hero, the lovely hermitage-region of these ascetics who dwell in the Daṇḍaka forest, their souls purified by austerity.

Words: paśyāśramapadaṃ — behold the hermitage-region; ramyaṃ — lovely, delightful; daṇḍakāraṇyavāsinām — of those dwelling in the Daṇḍaka forest; eṣāṃ — of these; tapasvināṃ — ascetics; vīra — O hero; tapasā — by austerity; bhāvitātmanām — of purified souls

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.