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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.23

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: having shown the brothers the hermitage, she asks Rāma's permission to leave her body and rejoin her teachers

3.70.23

kṛtsnaṃ vanam idaṃ dṛṣṭaṃ śrotavyaṃ ca śrutaṃ tvayā
tad icchāmy abhyanujñātā tyaktum etat kalevaram

This whole forest has been seen by you, and what was to be heard has been heard; so, with your leave, I wish to give up this body.

Words: kṛtsnaṃ — whole, entire; vanam — forest; idaṃ — this; dṛṣṭaṃ — seen; śrotavyaṃ — what is to be heard; ca — and; śrutaṃ — heard; tvayā — by you; tad — so, then; icchāmy — I wish; abhyanujñātā — granted leave (f.); tyaktum — to abandon, give up; etat — this; kalevaram — body

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.