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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.31.20

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: furious, Vāyu enters their limbs and bends them, leaving all the sisters hunchbacked

1.31.20

tāsāṃ tad vacanaṃ śrutvā vāyuḥ paramakopanaḥ
praviśya sarvagātrāṇi babhañja bhagavān prabhuḥ

Hearing those words of theirs, Vāyu, exceedingly enraged, the mighty lord, entered into all their limbs and bent them.

Words: tāsāṃ — their, of them; tad vacanaṃ — those words; śrutvā — having heard; vāyuḥ — Vāyu; paramakopanaḥ — exceedingly enraged; praviśya — having entered; sarvagātrāṇi — all (their) limbs; babhañja — broke, bent; bhagavān — the lord, venerable one; prabhuḥ — the mighty, master

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.