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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.7.8

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: they thank Sutīkṣṇa for his hospitality and ask leave to visit the other Daṇḍaka hermitages with the munis accompanying them → they ask to leave while it is still cool enough to travel

3.7.8

aviṣahyātapo yāvat sūryo nātivirājite
amārgeṇāgatāṃ lakṣmīṃ prāpyevānvayavarjitaḥ

While the sun, whose heat is unbearable, does not yet blaze too fiercely—like fortune gained by wrong means by a man devoid of good lineage—

Words: aviṣahyātapo — of unbearable heat; yāvat — as long as, while; sūryo — the sun; nātivirājite — does not yet blaze too much; amārgeṇāgatāṃ — come by a wrong path; lakṣmīṃ — fortune, prosperity; prāpyevānvayavarjitaḥ — like one devoid of lineage having obtained

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.