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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.32.8

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

1.32.8

yādṛśīr vaḥ kṣamā putryaḥ sarvāsām aviśeṣataḥ
kṣamā dānaṃ kṣamā yajñaḥ kṣamā satyaṃ ca putrikāḥ

Such is the patience of you all, my daughters, without distinction. Patience is charity, patience is sacrifice, patience is truth, my little daughters;

Words: yādṛśīr — of such a kind, such as; vaḥ — your; kṣamā — patience; putryaḥ — O daughters; sarvāsām — of all; aviśeṣataḥ — without distinction, equally; kṣamā — patience (is); dānaṃ — charity, giving; kṣamā — patience (is); yajñaḥ — sacrifice; kṣamā — patience (is); satyaṃ — truth; ca — and; putrikāḥ — O little daughters

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.