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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.20.17

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

1.20.17

suprabhājanayac cāpi putrān pañcāśataṃ punaḥ
saṃhārān nāma durdharṣān durākrāmān balīyasaḥ

And Suprabhā in turn bore fifty sons called Saṃhāras (Destroyers), invincible, hard to assail, exceedingly powerful.

Words: suprabhājanayac — Suprabhā bore; cāpi — and also; putrān — sons; pañcāśataṃ — fifty; punaḥ — again, in turn; saṃhārān — the Saṃhāras (Destroyers); nāma — by name; durdharṣān — invincible, unassailable; durākrāmān — hard to overcome; balīyasaḥ — exceedingly powerful

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.