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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.27

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.

3.70.27

yatra te sukṛtātmāno viharanti maharṣayaḥ
tat puṇyaṃ śabarīsthānaṃ jagāmātmasamādhinā

To that holy place of Śabarī, where those great sages of virtuous souls dwell, she went by the concentration of her spirit.

Words: yatra — where; te — those; sukṛtātmāno — of virtuous souls; viharanti — dwell, sport; maharṣayaḥ — the great sages; tat — that; puṇyaṃ — holy; śabarīsthānaṃ — the place of Śabarī; jagāmātmasamādhinā — went by concentration of spirit

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.