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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.46.16

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 46: Story of Indra & Diti: The Maruts’ regions and Viśālā’s lineage. Diti obtains divine wind-regions for her children, Viśvāmitra recounts Viśālā’s royal lineage and Sumati comes to welcome the travellers

In the sequence: his descendants were Hemacandra, Sucandra, Dhūmrāśva, Sṛñjaya, Sahadeva, Kuśāśva, Somadatta, and Kākutstha → the present King is Kākutstha's son Sumati

1.46.16

kuśāśvasya mahātejāḥ somadattaḥ pratāpavān
somadattasya putras tu kākutstha iti viśrutaḥ

Kuśāśva's son was the splendid, valiant Somadatta; and Somadatta's son was famed as Kākutstha.

Words: kuśāśvasya — of Kuśāśva; mahātejāḥ — of great splendour; somadattaḥ — Somadatta; pratāpavān — valiant, majestic; somadattasya — of Somadatta; putras — son; tu — and; kākutstha — Kākutstha; iti — thus; viśrutaḥ — famed

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.