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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.10
Araṇya Kāṇḍa, sarga 70: Śabarī’s welcome and ascent. She shows the seven seas gathered for her teachers’ bath, receives Rāma’s permission and enters fire to rejoin them
In the sequence: she explains that her teachers left for heaven when Rāma reached Citrakūṭa, instructing her to wait for his visit and receive him with Lakṣmaṇa before joining them
3.70.10
citrakūṭaṃ tvayi prāpte vimānair atulaprabhaiḥ
itas te divam ārūḍhā yān ahaṃ paryacāriṣam
When you had reached Citrakūṭa, those whom I served rose from here to heaven in celestial cars of matchless splendor.
Words: citrakūṭaṃ — Citrakūṭa; tvayi — you (loc.); prāpte — having arrived (loc. abs. with tvayi); vimānair — in celestial cars; atulaprabhaiḥ — of matchless splendor; itas — from here; te — they; divam — to heaven; ārūḍhā — ascended, risen; yān — whom; ahaṃ — I; paryacāriṣam — I served, waited upon
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.