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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.32.17

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 32: Story of Kuśanābha: Brahmadatta restores the daughters. Kuśanābha praises their restraint and arranges marriage to Brahmadatta, whose touch restores each sister as he takes her hand

In the sequence: she praises Cūlī’s spiritual splendor and asks him for a righteous son endowed with brahmanical austerity, explaining that she has no husband → Cūlī grants her a mind-born son, Brahmadatta, who becomes King of Kāmpilyā

1.32.17

apatiś cāsmi bhadraṃ te bhāryā cāsmi na kasya cit
brāhmeṇopagatāyāś ca dātum arhasi me sutam

I have no husband — blessings on you — and I am no one's wife; and since I have come to you in a brahmanical (chaste) manner, you ought to grant me a son.”

Words: apatiś — husbandless; cāsmi — and I am; bhadraṃ — a blessing; te — to you; bhāryā — wife; cāsmi — and I am; na — not; kasya cit — of anyone; brāhmeṇopagatāyāś — and to (me) who have approached in a brahmanical way; ca — and; dātum — to give; arhasi — you ought; me — to me; sutam — a son

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.