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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.65.6

Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 65: Story of Sītā & Śiva’s bow: Birth, suitors and Janaka’s condition. Janaka recounts Sītā’s birth, Śiva’s bow and the suitors’ failure, offering her hand to Rāma if he can string it

In the sequence: Viśvāmitra requests the bow

1.65.6

etad darśaya bhadraṃ te kṛtakāmau nṛpātmajau
darśanād asya dhanuṣo yatheṣṭaṃ pratiyāsyataḥ

Show it — blessings on you — and the two princes, their wish fulfilled, will return as they please after seeing this bow.”

Words: etad — this; darśaya — show; bhadraṃ te — blessings on you; kṛtakāmau — the two with their wish fulfilled; nṛpātmajau — the two princes; darśanād — from the sight; asya — of this; dhanuṣo — bow; yatheṣṭaṃ — as they please; pratiyāsyataḥ — the two will return

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.