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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.32.25

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: Kuśanābha rejoices and sends the married company away with its teachers → Somadā happily welcomes her hundred daughters-in-law.

1.32.25

kṛtodvāhaṃ tu rājānaṃ brahmadattaṃ mahīpatiḥ
sadāraṃ preṣayām āsa sopādhyāya gaṇaṃ tadā

When the marriage was done, the lord of the earth then sent off King Brahmadatta together with his wives and with his company of teachers.

Words: kṛtodvāhaṃ — having performed the marriage; tu — and; rājānaṃ — the king; brahmadattaṃ — Brahmadatta; mahīpatiḥ — the lord of the earth (Kuśanābha); sadāraṃ — together with his wives; preṣayām āsa — sent off, dispatched; sopādhyāya gaṇaṃ — with his company of teachers; tadā — then

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.