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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.16.6

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 16: The Devas beget Rāma’s future allies. Brahmā directs the Devas to beget powerful helpers, their monkey-shaped sons inherit divine qualities and gather around Vālin & Sugrīva

In the sequence: he directs them to beget vānara-shaped sons through apsarases, gandharvīs, daughters of yakṣas and pannagas, and ṛkṣa, vidyādharī, kiṃnarī and vānarī females

1.16.6

kiṃnarīṇāṃ ca gātreṣu vānarīṇāṃ tanūṣu ca
sṛjadhvaṃ harirūpeṇa putrāṃs tulyaparākramān

and upon the limbs of kinnara-women and the bodies of she-monkeys — beget, in the form of monkeys, sons of matching prowess.”

Words: kiṃnarīṇāṃ — of the kinnara-women; ca — and; gātreṣu — upon the limbs; vānarīṇāṃ — of the she-monkeys; tanūṣu — upon the bodies; ca — and; sṛjadhvaṃ — beget, create; harirūpeṇa — in the form of monkeys; putrāṃs — sons; tulyaparākramān — of matching prowess

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.