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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.31.10

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 31: Story of Kuśanābha: Vāyu disfigures the hundred daughters. Vāyu proposes marriage, the sisters insist on their father’s consent and Vāyu enters their limbs and leaves them hunchbacked

In the sequence: he turns to Kuśanābha's hundred daughters by Ghṛtācī → adorned and youthful, they sing, dance, and play instruments in a garden, shining like lightning or stars among clouds.

1.31.10

tās tu yauvanaśālinyo rūpavatyaḥ svalaṃkṛtāḥ
udyānabhūmim āgamya prāvṛṣīva śatahradāḥ

And they, graced with youth, beautiful and well-adorned, coming to the garden-ground, were like flashes of lightning in the rainy season.

Words: tās — they; tu — and; yauvanaśālinyo — graced with youth; rūpavatyaḥ — beautiful, shapely; svalaṃkṛtāḥ — well-adorned; udyānabhūmim — the garden-ground; āgamya — having come to; prāvṛṣīva — as in the rainy season; śatahradāḥ — flashes of lightning

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.