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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.32.23

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: as Brahmadatta takes each sister's hand in marriage, she is freed of her hunchback and affliction, and her beauty returns

1.32.23

spṛṣṭamātre tataḥ pāṇau vikubjā vigatajvarāḥ
yuktāḥ paramayā lakṣmyā babhuḥ kanyāśataṃ tadā

Then, the moment their hands were touched, the hundred maidens, freed of their deformity and rid of their affliction, endowed with the highest beauty, shone forth.

Words: spṛṣṭamātre — the moment (the hand) was touched; tataḥ — then; pāṇau — on the hand (loc.); vikubjā — freed of crookedness, no longer hunchbacked; vigatajvarāḥ — rid of affliction, distress gone; yuktāḥ — endowed, joined; paramayā — the highest; lakṣmyā — beauty, splendour; babhuḥ — shone, appeared; kanyāśataṃ — the hundred maidens; tadā — then

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.