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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.31.11

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.

1.31.11

gāyantyo nṛtyamānāś ca vādayantyaś ca rāghava
āmodaṃ paramaṃ jagmur varābharaṇabhūṣitāḥ

Singing and dancing and playing music, O Rāghava, adorned with excellent ornaments, they came to the highest delight.

Words: gāyantyo — singing; nṛtyamānāś — dancing; ca — and; vādayantyaś — playing (instruments); ca — and; rāghava — O Rāghava; āmodaṃ — delight, joy; paramaṃ — supreme, highest; jagmur — they came to, attained; varābharaṇabhūṣitāḥ — adorned with excellent ornaments

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.