Ramayana — Bala Kanda, Sarga 51, Shloka 22
शतानन्दोपदेशः
Śatānanda’s Welcome to Rāma and the Prelude to Viśvāmitra’s History
नगराणि सराष्ट्राणि सरितश्च तथा गिरीन्।आश्रमान्क्रमशो राम विचरन्नाजगाम ह।।।।वसिष्ठस्याश्रमपदं नानावृक्षसमाकुलम्।नानामृगगणाकीर्णं सिद्धचारणसेवितम्।।।।देवदानवगन्धर्वै: किन्नरैरुपशोभितम्।प्रशान्तहरिणाकीर्णं द्विजसङ्घनिषेवितम्।।।।ब्रह्मर्षिगणसङ्कीर्णं देवर्षिगणसेवितम्।तपश्चरणसंसिद्धैरग्निकल्पैर्महात्मभि:।।।।अब्भक्षैर्वायुभक्षैश्च शीर्णपर्णाशनैस्तथा।फलमूलाशनैर्दान्तैर्जितरोषैर्जितेन्द्रियै:।।।।ऋषिभिर्वालखिल्यैश्च जपहोमपरायणै:।अन्यैर्वैखानसैश्चैव समन्तादुपशोभितम्।।।।
nagarāṇi sarāṣṭrāṇi saritaś ca tathā girīn |
āśramān kramaśo rāma vicarann ājagāma ha ||
vasiṣṭhasyāśramapadaṃ nānā-vṛkṣa-samākulam |
nānā-mṛga-gaṇākīrṇaṃ siddha-cāraṇa-sevitam ||
deva-dānava-gandharvaiḥ kinnarair upaśobhitam |
praśānta-hariṇākīrṇaṃ dvija-saṅgha-niṣevitam ||
brahmarṣi-gaṇa-saṅkīrṇaṃ devarṣi-gaṇa-sevitam |
tapaś-caraṇa-saṃsiddhair agni-kalpaiḥ mahātmabhiḥ ||
abbhakṣair vāyubhakṣaiś ca śīrṇa-parṇāśanais tathā |
phala-mūlāśanair dāntair jita-roṣair jitendriyaiḥ ||
ṛṣibhir vālakhilyaiś ca japa-homa-parāyaṇaiḥ |
anyair vaikhānasaiś caiva samantād upaśobhitam ||
ラーマよ、彼は都と国々（その領域）を順に巡り、川をたどり、また山々を越え、諸々のアーシュラマ（āśrama）を次々と訪ね歩いて、ついにヴァシシュタ（Vasiṣṭha）の聖なる修行林に到った。そこは多種の樹木が繁り、さまざまな獣の群れが満ち、シッダ（Siddha）とチャーラナ（Cāraṇa）がしばしば訪れていた。デーヴァ（Deva）、ダーナヴァ（Dānava）、ガンダルヴァ（Gandharva）、キンナラ（Kinnara）の臨在によって輝き、穏やかな鹿が群れ、鳥の群れも集っていた。ブラフマリシ（Brahmarṣi）の衆が満ち、デーヴァリシ（Devarṣi）が侍し、さらに苦行（tapas）を成就した大いなる魂が、火のごとく赫々としていた。水を糧とする者、風を糧とする者、落葉を食する者、果実と根を食する者があり、みな自制し、怒りを克服し、諸根を調御していた。ヴァーラキリヤ（Vālakhilya）ら、ジャパ（japa）とホーマ（homa）に専念する聖仙、また他のヴァイカーナサ（Vaikhānasa）たちが、四方からその地を荘厳していた。
Rama! while Viswamitra was wandering about kingdoms, cities, rivers, mountains and hermitages, he gradually reached the ashram of Vasishta. That hermitage afounded in a variety of trees, species of animals, siddhas, charanas, devatas, danavas, gandharvas and kinnaras, multitudes of birds and resting deer. It was inhabited by brahmarshis and devarishis, by sages who had attained perfection through austerities, by those resembling fire in brightness, by the magnanimous and the self-restrained, by those who had conquered anger and controlled their senses, who was devoted to prayers and offerings of libations. Some of them subsisted on water, some on air. Some lived on fallen leaves, some on fruits and roots. The hermitage looked bedecked with valakhilyas (born from Vala of Brahma ) and vaikhanasas (born from the nails of Brahma).
FAQs
Āśrama-dharma is celebrated: a community ordered by tapas, restraint, truthfulness in practice, and disciplined ritual (japa-homa) becomes a luminous moral ecosystem.
During his royal circuit of the world, Viśvāmitra reaches Vasiṣṭha’s hermitage, whose sanctity and inhabitants are described in detail.
The collective virtues of the ascetics: self-control (dānta), mastery over anger (jita-roṣa), sense-restraint (jitendriya), and perseverance in austerity (tapas).