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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.45.8

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: Diti begins her observance at Kuśaplavana

1.45.8

gate tasmin naraśreṣṭha ditiḥ paramaharṣitā
kuśaplavanam āsādya tapas tepe sudāruṇam

When he had gone, O best of men, Diti, greatly delighted, reached Kuśaplavana and performed most terrible austerity.

Words: gate tasmin — when he had gone; naraśreṣṭha — O best of men; ditiḥ — Diti; paramaharṣitā — greatly delighted; kuśaplavanam — Kuśaplavana (a holy place); āsādya — having reached; tapas — austerity; tepe — performed, practised; sudāruṇam — most terrible, severe

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.