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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.26

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 enters the sacrificial fire and, through her spiritual discipline, reaches the blessed realm of those maharṣis.

3.70.26

anujñātā tu rāmeṇa hutvātmānaṃ hutāśane
jvalatpāvakasaṃkāśā svargam eva jagāma sā

Granted leave by Rāma, offering herself into the sacrificial fire, blazing like kindled flame, she went straight to heaven.

Words: anujñātā — granted leave (f.); tu — and; rāmeṇa — by Rāma; hutvātmānaṃ — having offered herself; hutāśane — into the fire; jvalatpāvakasaṃkāśā — like blazing fire; svargam — to heaven; eva — straight, indeed; jagāma — went; sā — she

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.