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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.31.12

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.

1.31.12

atha tāś cārusarvāṅgyo rūpeṇāpratimā bhuvi
udyānabhūmim āgamya tārā iva ghanāntare

Then those maidens, lovely in every limb, unmatched in beauty on earth, having come to the garden-ground, (shone) like stars amid the clouds.

Words: atha — then; tāś — those; cārusarvāṅgyo — lovely in every limb; rūpeṇāpratimā — unmatched in beauty; bhuvi — on earth; udyānabhūmim — the garden-ground; āgamya — having come to; tārā — stars; iva — like; ghanāntare — amid the clouds

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.