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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.20.16

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

1.20.16

pañcāśataṃ sutāṃl lebhe jayā nāma varān purā
vadhāyāsurasainyānām ameyān kāmarūpiṇaḥ

Jayā by name of old obtained fifty choice sons, immeasurable, able to take any form, for the slaughter of the armies of the asuras.

Words: pañcāśataṃ — fifty; sutāṃl — sons; lebhe — obtained; jayā — Jayā; nāma — by name; varān — choice, excellent; purā — of old; vadhāyāsurasainyānām — for the slaughter of the asura armies; ameyān — immeasurable; kāmarūpiṇaḥ — able to take any form

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.