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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.21

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 the seven seas gathered there when the weakened, fasting munis wished to bathe but could not travel → their wet bark garments still hang on the trees without drying

3.70.21

aśaknuvadbhis tair gantum upavāsaśramālasaiḥ
cintite 'bhyāgatān paśya sametān sapta sāgarān

When those sages, unable to go, languid from the toil of fasting, but wished it, behold — the seven seas that came and gathered here together.

Words: aśaknuvadbhis — by those unable; tair — by those; gantum — to go; upavāsaśramālasaiḥ — languid from the toil of fasting; cintite — when it was thought/wished (loc. abs.); 'bhyāgatān — come, arrived; paśya — behold; sametān — assembled, gathered; sapta — seven; sāgarān — seas, oceans

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.