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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.46.6

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: she asks that they become the Maruts and range as winds: one in Brahmā's world, one in Indra's, one in the sky, and four through the quarters

1.46.6

catvāras tu suraśreṣṭha diśo vai tava śāsanāt
saṃcariṣyanti bhadraṃ te devabhūtā mamātmajāḥ
tvatkṛtenaiva nāmnā ca mārutā iti viśrutāḥ

And four of them, O best of gods, at your command — blessings on you — my offspring, become divine, shall range the (four) quarters; and by the very name given by you they are famed as the Māruta.

Words: catvāras — four; tu — and; suraśreṣṭha — O best of gods; diśo — the directions, quarters; vai — indeed; tava — your; śāsanāt — by command, at the order; saṃcariṣyanti — shall range, roam; bhadraṃ — blessing; te — to you; devabhūtā — become gods, being divine; mamātmajāḥ — my offspring; tvatkṛtenaiva — by the very (name) given by you; nāmnā — by name; ca — and; mārutā — the Māruta; iti — thus; viśrutāḥ — famed, renowned

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.