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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.31.7
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
1.31.7
sumāgadhī nadī ramyā māgadhān viśrutāyayau
pañcānāṃ śailamukhyānāṃ madhye māleva śobhate
The lovely river Sumāgadhī, renowned, flowed forth into the lands of the Magadhas; amid the five chief mountains it glistens like a garland.
Words: sumāgadhī — Sumāgadhī; nadī — river; ramyā — lovely, delightful; māgadhān — into the Magadha lands; viśrutāyayau — renowned, (she) flowed forth; pañcānāṃ — of the five; śailamukhyānāṃ — of the chief mountains; madhye — in the midst; māleva — like a garland; śobhate — shines, is resplendent
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.