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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.14

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: Rāma recalls Kabandha's description of the hermitage's spiritual power and asks to see it.

3.70.14

evam uktaḥ sa dharmātmā śabaryā śabarīm idam
rāghavaḥ prāha vijñāne tāṃ nityam abahiṣkṛtām

Thus addressed by Śabarī, that righteous Rāghava said this to Śabarī, who was never shut out from (spiritual) knowledge:

Words: evam — thus; uktaḥ — addressed; sa — he; dharmātmā — the righteous one; śabaryā — by Śabarī; śabarīm — to Śabarī; idam — this; rāghavaḥ — Rāghava; prāha — said; vijñāne — in knowledge, discernment; tāṃ — her; nityam — ever, always; abahiṣkṛtām — not shut out, not excluded

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.