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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.19

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

3.70.19

iyaṃ pratyak sthalī vedī yatra te me susatkṛtāḥ
puṣpopahāraṃ kurvanti śramād udvepibhiḥ karaiḥ

This, to the west, is the raised altar-ground where those, well honored by me, make their flower-offering with hands trembling from toil.

Words: iyaṃ — this; pratyak — to the west, westward; sthalī — raised ground, plateau; vedī — altar; yatra — where; te — those; me — by me; susatkṛtāḥ — well honored; puṣpopahāraṃ — flower-offering; kurvanti — make, offer; śramād — from toil; udvepibhiḥ — trembling, quivering; karaiḥ — with hands

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.