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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.31.9
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.
1.31.9
kuśanābhas tu rājarṣiḥ kanyāśatam anuttamam
janayām āsa dharmātmā ghṛtācyāṃ raghunandana
The royal seer Kuśanābha, righteous of soul, begot a peerless hundred daughters upon Ghṛtācī, O delight of the Raghus.
Words: kuśanābhas — Kuśanābha; tu — and; rājarṣiḥ — the royal seer; kanyāśatam — a hundred daughters; anuttamam — peerless; janayām āsa — begot, engendered; dharmātmā — righteous of soul; ghṛtācyāṃ — upon Ghṛtācī; raghunandana — O delight of the Raghus
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.