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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.11

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

3.70.11

taiś cāham uktā dharmajñair mahābhāgair maharṣibhiḥ
āgamiṣyati te rāmaḥ supuṇyam imam āśramam

And I was told by those righteous, illustrious great sages: 'Rāma will come to this most holy hermitage of yours.

Words: taiś — by those; cāham — and I; uktā — was told (f.); dharmajñair — by the knowers of dharma; mahābhāgair — by the illustrious; maharṣibhiḥ — by the great sages; āgamiṣyati — will come; te — to your; rāmaḥ — Rāma; supuṇyam — most holy; imam — this; āśramam — hermitage

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.