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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.32.6

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 praises their united restraint, calling patience an ornament of both women and men and a foundation of dharma → he consults his ministers about suitable marriages. Viśvāmitra introduces the man they will marry through a second story: the maharṣi Cūlī, an ūrdhvaretas (one who restrains his generative energy) is served devotedly by Somadā, a gandharva woman and daughter of Ūrmilā

1.32.6

kṣāntaṃ kṣamāvatāṃ putryaḥ kartavyaṃ sumahat kṛtam
aikamatyam upāgamya kulaṃ cāvekṣitaṃ mama

“Patience has been shown, my daughters; the great duty of the forbearing has been done; coming to a single accord, you have also had regard for my family.

Words: kṣāntaṃ — patience (has been shown), forbearance; kṣamāvatāṃ — of the patient, the forbearing; putryaḥ — O daughters; kartavyaṃ — the duty (to be done); sumahat — very great; kṛtam — done; aikamatyam — unanimity, single accord; upāgamya — having come to, attained; kulaṃ — family, lineage; cāvekṣitaṃ — and regarded, looked to; mama — my

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.