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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.45.18

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 45: Story of Indra & Diti: Service, broken observance and division. Diti seeks a son to kill Indra, he serves her during her observance and exploits her sleeping posture to enter her body and divide the fetus into seven

In the sequence: its cries wake Diti → saying “Do not weep,” Indra continues cutting

1.45.18

bidhyamānas tato garbho vajreṇa śataparvaṇā
ruroda susvaraṃ rāma tato ditir abudhyata

Being split by the hundred-jointed thunderbolt, the fetus then cried out loudly, O Rāma; thereupon Diti awoke.

Words: bidhyamānas — being split; tato — then; garbho — the fetus; vajreṇa — by the thunderbolt; śataparvaṇā — hundred-jointed; ruroda — cried out, wailed; susvaraṃ — loudly, with a shrill cry; rāma — O Rāma; tato — thereupon; ditir — Diti; abudhyata — awoke, woke up

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.