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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.33.9

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

1.33.9

divyā puṇyodakā ramyā himavantam upāśritā
lokasya hitakāmārthaṃ pravṛttā bhaginī mama

Divine, of holy waters, lovely, resting against the Himālaya, my sister flowed forth for the welfare and good of the world.

Words: divyā — divine; puṇyodakā — of holy water; ramyā — lovely, delightful; himavantam — the Himālaya; upāśritā — resting on, leaning against; lokasya — of the world; hitakāmārthaṃ — for the sake of (its) welfare and good; pravṛttā — flowed forth, set in motion; bhaginī — sister; mama — my

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki. 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.