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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 3.70.4

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: on Pampā's western shore they reach the śramaṇī Śabarī’s hermitage

3.70.4

tau puṣkariṇyāḥ pampāyās tīram āsādya paścimam
apaśyatāṃ tatas tatra śabaryā ramyam āśramam

The two, reaching the western shore of the lotus-pond Pampā, then saw there the lovely hermitage of Śabarī.

Words: tau — the two; puṣkariṇyāḥ — of the lotus-pond; pampāyās — of Pampā; tīram — shore; āsādya — having reached; paścimam — western; apaśyatāṃ — the two saw; tatas — then; tatra — there; śabaryā — of Śabarī; ramyam — lovely, delightful; āśramam — hermitage

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.