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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.7.16

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

3.7.16

gamyatāṃ vatsa saumitre bhavān api ca gacchatu
āgantavyaṃ ca te dṛṣṭvā punar evāśramaṃ mama

Let us go, dear Saumitri; and let your honour go too. Having seen it, you must return again to this hermitage of mine.”

Words: gamyatāṃ — let (the way) be taken, go; vatsa — dear child; saumitre — O Saumitri; bhavān — your honour; api ca — and also; gacchatu — let (him) go; āgantavyaṃ ca — and (you) must return; te — by you; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; punar evāśramaṃ — again to the hermitage; mama — my

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.