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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.32.26

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.

1.32.26

somadāpi susaṃhṛṣṭā putrasya sadṛśīṃ kriyām
yathānyāyaṃ ca gandharvī snuṣās tāḥ pratyanandata

Somadā the gandharva woman too, greatly delighted, rejoiced at the rite befitting her son, duly performed, and welcomed those daughters-in-law with joy.

Words: somadāpi — Somadā too; susaṃhṛṣṭā — greatly delighted; putrasya — of her son; sadṛśīṃ — befitting, suitable; kriyām — the rite, ceremony; yathānyāyaṃ — according to rule, duly; ca — and; gandharvī — the gandharva woman; snuṣās — the daughters-in-law; tāḥ — those; pratyanandata — rejoiced at, welcomed with joy

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.