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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.22

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

3.70.22

kṛtābhiṣekais tair nyastā valkalāḥ pādapeṣv iha
adyāpi na viśuṣyanti pradeśe raghunandana

The bark-garments laid on the trees here by them when they had bathed do not dry out even now, in this spot, O joy of the Raghus.

Words: kṛtābhiṣekais — by those who had bathed; tair — by them; nyastā — laid, placed; valkalāḥ — bark-garments; pādapeṣv — on the trees; iha — here; adyāpi — even today; na — not; viśuṣyanti — dry up, wither; pradeśe — in the place, spot; raghunandana — O joy of the Raghus

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.