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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.32.2

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: The daughters bow and explain that Vāyu injured them when they told him to seek their father's permission

1.32.2

vāyuḥ sarvātmako rājan pradharṣayitum icchati
aśubhaṃ mārgam āsthāya na dharmaṃ pratyavekṣate

“Vāyu, who pervades all, O king, wishes to violate us; taking to an unrighteous course, he has no regard for dharma.

Words: vāyuḥ — Vāyu; sarvātmako — pervading all; rājan — O king; pradharṣayitum — to assault, violate; icchati — wishes; aśubhaṃ — inauspicious, unrighteous; mārgam — path, course; āsthāya — having taken to, adopted; na — not; dharmaṃ — dharma; pratyavekṣate — regards, considers

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.