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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.24

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

3.70.24

teṣām icchāmy ahaṃ gantuṃ samīpaṃ bhāvitātmanām
munīnām āśraṃmo yeṣām ahaṃ ca paricāriṇī

I wish to go to the presence of those sages of purified souls, whose hermitage this is and whose attendant I am.

Words: teṣām — of them, to them; icchāmy — I wish; ahaṃ — I; gantuṃ — to go; samīpaṃ — to the presence, near; bhāvitātmanām — of the purified souls; munīnām — of the sages; āśraṃmo — the hermitage (is); yeṣām — whose; ahaṃ — I; ca — and; paricāriṇī — the attendant (f.)

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.