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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.18

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: Śabarī shows them Mataṅga's Wood, the sacred ford, and the places where her teachers worshipped

3.70.18

iha te bhāvitātmāno guravo me mahādyute
juhavāṃś cakrire tīrthaṃ mantravan mantrapūjitam

Here, O greatly radiant one, those my teachers of disciplined souls, offering oblations, consecrated the sacred ford with mantras, worshipped with mantras.

Words: iha — here; te — those; bhāvitātmāno — of purified souls; guravo — teachers; me — my; mahādyute — O greatly radiant one; juhavāṃś — offering oblations; cakrire — they made; tīrthaṃ — the sacred ford; mantravan — with mantras; mantrapūjitam — worshipped with mantras

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.