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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.32.19

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

1.32.19

sa rājā brahmadattas tu purīm adhyavasat tadā
kāmpilyāṃ parayā lakṣmyā devarājo yathā divam

And that King Brahmadatta then dwelt in the city Kāmpilyā in the highest splendour, as the king of the gods dwells in heaven.

Words: sa — that; rājā — king; brahmadattas — Brahmadatta; tu — and; purīm — city; adhyavasat — dwelt in, inhabited; tadā — then; kāmpilyāṃ — in Kāmpilyā; parayā — with the highest; lakṣmyā — splendour, fortune; devarājo — the king of the gods (Indra); yathā — as; divam — heaven

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.