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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.31.6

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: Viśvāmitra identifies the surrounding country with Vasu, its five mountains, and the river Sumāgadhī, flowing like a garland through fertile fields

1.31.6

eṣā vasumatī rāma vasos tasya mahātmanaḥ
ete śailavarāḥ pañca prakāśante samantataḥ

This is Vasumatī, Rāma, the city of that great-souled Vasu; these five excellent mountains shine round about it.

Words: eṣā — this; vasumatī — Vasumatī; rāma — O Rāma; vasos — of Vasu; tasya — that; mahātmanaḥ — the great-souled; ete — these; śailavarāḥ — excellent mountains; pañca — five; prakāśante — shine, appear; samantataḥ — on all sides, round about

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.