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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.33.8
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 33: Story of Kuśanābha: Gādhi’s birth and Viśvāmitra’s lineage. Kuśanābha obtains Gādhi through sacrifice, Viśvāmitra identifies Gādhi as his father and recounts Satyavatī’s transformation into the river Kauśikī
In the sequence: he describes his elder sister Satyavatī, wife of Ṛcīka, who followed her husband bodily to heaven and became the sacred river Kauśikī
1.33.8
saśarīrā gatā svargaṃ bhartāram anuvartinī
kauśikī paramodārā sā pravṛttā mahānadī
Following her husband, she went to heaven in her very body; and that most noble one flowed forth as the great river Kauśikī.
Words: saśarīrā — in her own body, bodily; gatā — went; svargaṃ — to heaven; bhartāram — husband; anuvartinī — following, faithful to; kauśikī — as the Kauśikī (river); paramodārā — most noble; sā — she; pravṛttā — flowed forth, arose; mahānadī — the great river
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.