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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 1.69.30
Bāla Kāṇḍa, sarga 69: Vivāha: Kuśadhvaja’s arrival and the Ikṣvāku lineage. Kuśadhvaja joins the assembly, Vasiṣṭha recounts the Ikṣvāku lineage and asks for Janaka’s two daughters for Rāma & Lakṣmaṇa
In the sequence: Vasiṣṭha describes their royal ancestry as pure from its beginnings, righteous, heroic, and truthful → he asks for Janaka’s two daughters for Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa, saying the daughters and princes are fitting equals.
1.69.30
nahuṣasya yayātis tu nābhāgas tu yayātijaḥ
nābhāgasya bhabhūvāja ajād daśaratho 'bhavat
tasmād daśarathāj jātau bhrātarau rāmalakṣmaṇau
Nahuṣa's (son) was Yayāti; Nābhāga was Yayāti's son; from Nābhāga came Aja; from Aja was born Daśaratha; and from that Daśaratha were born the two brothers Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa.
Words: nahuṣasya — of Nahuṣa; yayātis — Yayāti; tu — and; nābhāgas — Nābhāga; tu — and; yayātijaḥ — born of Yayāti; nābhāgasya — of Nābhāga; bhabhūvāja — there came to be Aja; ajād — from Aja; daśaratho — Daśaratha; 'bhavat — became; tasmād — from him; daśarathāj — from Daśaratha; jātau — the two born; bhrātarau — two brothers; rāmalakṣmaṇau — Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa
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.