Rāmāyaṇacampū 2.84_10

2.84_10

And then, thinking, “I shall not occupy Ayodhyā until the noble one returns. If he should delay beyond that term, I will immediately gladden my vital breaths by taking refuge in the consumer of offerings (fire),” he took up residence in the hermitage named Nandīgrāma.
The son of Daśaratha too, in order to avert the destruction wrought by the host of night-roamers reported by the ascetics whose wealth is tranquility, entered the interior of the dense forest.
Gazed upon wistfully by forest deer with wide eyes, whose shoots of fear had vanished and who showed no interest even in mouthfuls of darbha grass, / Rāma reached the abode of the great seer Atri, naturally venerable, and accepted the loving worship offered by his joyful mind.