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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.35.7
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 35: Story of Gaṅgā & Umā: Restrained union and Umā’s curses. The Devas interrupt Śiva & Umā’s union, his released energy transforms the earth through Agni & Vāyu, Umā curses the Devas and the earth
In the sequence: Viśvāmitra begins with Śiva and Umā: after their marriage, a divine hundred years of union pass without a son
1.35.7
śitikaṇṭhasya devasya divyaṃ varṣaśataṃ gatam
na cāpi tanayo rāma tasyām āsīt paraṃtapa
A divine hundred years passed for the blue-throated god, yet no son was born to him upon her, O scorcher of foes, O Rāma.
Words: śitikaṇṭhasya — of the blue-throated (Śiva); devasya — of the god; divyaṃ — divine; varṣaśataṃ — a hundred years; gatam — passed, gone; na — not; cāpi — and yet, and even; tanayo — a son; rāma — O Rāma; tasyām — upon her, in her; āsīt — was, came to be; paraṃtapa — O scorcher of foes
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.