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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.31.13

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: Vāyu sees them and asks all of them to become his wives, offering to replace their human condition with long life

1.31.13

tāḥ sarvaguṇasaṃpannā rūpayauvanasaṃyutāḥ
dṛṣṭvā sarvātmako vāyur idaṃ vacanam abravīt

Seeing them, endowed with every excellence and possessed of beauty and youth, Vāyu, who dwells within all, spoke these words:

Words: tāḥ — them; sarvaguṇasaṃpannā — endowed with every virtue; rūpayauvanasaṃyutāḥ — possessed of beauty and youth; dṛṣṭvā — having seen; sarvātmako — pervading all, the soul of all; vāyur — Vāyu (the wind-god); idaṃ — this; vacanam — words; abravīt — spoke

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.