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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.20.14

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 20: Vasiṣṭha’s intervention: The promise and Viśvāmitra’s powers. Viśvāmitra threatens to leave, Vasiṣṭha urges Daśaratha to honour his promise and assures him of the ṛṣi’s power to protect Rāma

In the sequence: the divine weapons were given to Viśvāmitra while he was King: a hundred mighty sons of Kṛśāśva, born through Dakṣa's daughters Jayā and Suprabhā, fifty from each

1.20.14

te 'pi putrāḥ kṛśāśvasya prajāpatisutāsutāḥ
nakarūpā mahāvīryā dīptimanto jayāvahāḥ

And those sons of Kṛśāśva, the sons born of the daughters of Prajāpati, of manifold forms, of great valour, radiant, bringers of victory —

Words: te — those; 'pi — also; putrāḥ — sons; kṛśāśvasya — of Kṛśāśva; prajāpatisutāsutāḥ — sons born of the daughters of Prajāpati; nakarūpā — of manifold forms; mahāvīryā — of great valour; dīptimanto — radiant; jayāvahāḥ — bringers of victory

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.